AttributionSource
class AttributionSource : Parcelable
kotlin.Any | |
↳ | android.content.AttributionSource |
This class represents a source to which access to permission protected data should be attributed. Attribution sources can be chained to represent cases where the protected data would flow through several applications. For example, app A may ask app B for contacts and in turn app B may ask app C for contacts. In this case, the attribution chain would be A -> B -> C and the data flow would be C -> B -> A. There are two main benefits of using the attribution source mechanism: avoid doing explicit permission checks on behalf of the calling app if you are accessing private data on their behalf to send back; avoid double data access blaming which happens as you check the calling app's permissions and when you access the data behind these permissions (for runtime permissions). Also if not explicitly blaming the caller the data access would be counted towards your app vs to the previous app where yours was just a proxy.
Every Context
has an attribution source and you can get it via android.content.Context#getAttributionSource()
representing itself, which is a chain of one. You can attribute work to another app, or more precisely to a chain of apps, through which the data you would be accessing would flow, via Context#createContext(
plus specifying an attribution source for the next app to receive the protected data you are accessing via AttributionSource.Builder#setNext(
. Creating this attribution chain ensures that the datasource would check whether every app in the attribution chain has permission to access the data before releasing it. The datasource will also record appropriately that this data was accessed by the apps in the sequence if the data is behind a sensitive permission (e.g. dangerous). Again, this is useful if you are accessing the data on behalf of another app, for example a speech recognizer using the mic so it can provide recognition to a calling app.
You can create an attribution chain of you and any other app without any verification as this is something already available via the android.app.AppOpsManager
APIs. This is supported to handle cases where you don't have access to the caller's attribution source and you can directly use the AttributionSource.Builder
APIs. However, if the data flows through more than two apps (more than you access the data for the caller) you need to have a handle to the AttributionSource
for the calling app's context in order to create an attribution context. This means you either need to have an API for the other app to send you its attribution source or use a platform API that pipes the callers attribution source.
You cannot forge an attribution chain without the participation of every app in the attribution chain (aside of the special case mentioned above). To create an attribution source that is trusted you need to create an attribution context that points to an attribution source that was explicitly created by the app that it refers to, recursively.
Since creating an attribution context leads to all permissions for apps in the attribution chain being checked, you need to expect getting a security exception when accessing permission protected APIs since some app in the chain may not have the permission.
Summary
Nested classes | |
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A builder for |
Inherited constants | |
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Public methods | |
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Boolean |
If you are handling an IPC and you don't trust the caller you need to validate whether the attribution source is one for the calling app to prevent the caller to pass you a source from another app without including themselves in the attribution chain. |
Int | |
Unit |
If you are handling an IPC and you don't trust the caller you need to validate whether the attribution source is one for the calling app to prevent the caller to pass you a source from another app without including themselves in the attribution chain. |
Boolean |
Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one. |
String? |
The attribution tag of the app accessing the permission protected data. |
Int |
Gets the device ID for this attribution source. |
AttributionSource? |
getNext() The next app to receive the permission protected data. |
String? |
The package that is accessing the permission protected data. |
Int |
getPid() The PID that is accessing the permission protected data. |
Int |
getUid() The UID that is accessing the permission protected data. |
Int |
hashCode() |
Boolean |
Checks whether this attribution source can be trusted. |
static AttributionSource |
Returns a generic |
String |
toString() |
Unit |
writeToParcel(dest: Parcel, flags: Int) Flatten this object in to a Parcel. |
Properties | |
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static Parcelable.Creator<AttributionSource!> |
Public methods
checkCallingUid
fun checkCallingUid(): Boolean
If you are handling an IPC and you don't trust the caller you need to validate whether the attribution source is one for the calling app to prevent the caller to pass you a source from another app without including themselves in the attribution chain.
Return | |
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Boolean |
if the attribution source cannot be trusted to be from the caller. |
describeContents
fun describeContents(): Int
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Int |
a bitmask indicating the set of special object types marshaled by this Parcelable object instance. Value is either 0 or android.os.Parcelable#CONTENTS_FILE_DESCRIPTOR |
enforceCallingUid
fun enforceCallingUid(): Unit
If you are handling an IPC and you don't trust the caller you need to validate whether the attribution source is one for the calling app to prevent the caller to pass you a source from another app without including themselves in the attribution chain.
Exceptions | |
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java.lang.SecurityException |
if the attribution source cannot be trusted to be from the caller. |
equals
fun equals(other: Any?): Boolean
Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one.
The equals
method implements an equivalence relation on non-null object references:
- It is reflexive: for any non-null reference value
x
,x.equals(x)
should returntrue
. - It is symmetric: for any non-null reference values
x
andy
,x.equals(y)
should returntrue
if and only ify.equals(x)
returnstrue
. - It is transitive: for any non-null reference values
x
,y
, andz
, ifx.equals(y)
returnstrue
andy.equals(z)
returnstrue
, thenx.equals(z)
should returntrue
. - It is consistent: for any non-null reference values
x
andy
, multiple invocations ofx.equals(y)
consistently returntrue
or consistently returnfalse
, provided no information used inequals
comparisons on the objects is modified. - For any non-null reference value
x
,x.equals(null)
should returnfalse
.
An equivalence relation partitions the elements it operates on into equivalence classes; all the members of an equivalence class are equal to each other. Members of an equivalence class are substitutable for each other, at least for some purposes.
Parameters | |
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obj |
the reference object with which to compare. |
o |
This value may be null . |
Return | |
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Boolean |
true if this object is the same as the obj argument; false otherwise. |
getAttributionTag
fun getAttributionTag(): String?
The attribution tag of the app accessing the permission protected data.
Return | |
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String? |
This value may be null . |
getDeviceId
fun getDeviceId(): Int
Gets the device ID for this attribution source. Attribution source can set the device ID using Builder#setDeviceId(int)
, the default device ID is Context#DEVICE_ID_DEFAULT
.
This device ID is used for permissions checking during attribution source validation.
getNext
fun getNext(): AttributionSource?
The next app to receive the permission protected data.
Return | |
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AttributionSource? |
This value may be null . |
getPackageName
fun getPackageName(): String?
The package that is accessing the permission protected data.
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String? |
This value may be null . |
getPid
fun getPid(): Int
The PID that is accessing the permission protected data.
getUid
fun getUid(): Int
The UID that is accessing the permission protected data.
isTrusted
fun isTrusted(context: Context): Boolean
Checks whether this attribution source can be trusted. That is whether the app it refers to created it and provided to the attribution chain.
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context |
Context: Context handle. This value cannot be null . |
Return | |
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Boolean |
Whether this is a trusted source. |
myAttributionSource
static fun myAttributionSource(): AttributionSource
Returns a generic AttributionSource
that represents the entire calling process.
Callers are strongly encouraged to use a more specific attribution source whenever possible, such as from Context#getAttributionSource()
, since that enables developers to have more detailed and scoped control over attribution within sub-components of their app.
Return | |
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AttributionSource |
a generic AttributionSource representing the entire calling process This value cannot be null . |
Exceptions | |
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java.lang.IllegalStateException |
when no accurate AttributionSource can be determined |
toString
fun toString(): String
Return | |
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String |
a string representation of the object. |
writeToParcel
fun writeToParcel(
dest: Parcel,
flags: Int
): Unit
Flatten this object in to a Parcel.
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dest |
Parcel: This value cannot be null . |
flags |
Int: Additional flags about how the object should be written. May be 0 or PARCELABLE_WRITE_RETURN_VALUE . Value is either 0 or a combination of android.os.Parcelable#PARCELABLE_WRITE_RETURN_VALUE , and android.os.Parcelable.PARCELABLE_ELIDE_DUPLICATES |