Library

BUILD.bazel

Here, you'll prepare a build target, that your host code will make use of.

Start by preparing a [sapi_library()][sapi_library] target in your BUILD.bazel file.

For reference, you can take a peek at a working example from the zlib example.

load(
    "//sandboxed_api/tools/generator:sapi_generator.bzl",
    "sapi_library",
)

sapi_library(
    name = "zlib-sapi",
    srcs = [],   # Extra code compiled with the SAPI library
    hdrs = []    # Leave empty if embedded SAPI libraries are used, and the
                 # default sandbox policy is sufficient.
    embed = True,
    functions = [
        "deflateInit_",
        "deflate",
        "deflateEnd",
    ],
    lib = "@zlib//:zlibonly",
    lib_name = "Zlib",
    namespace = "sapi::zlib",
)

• name - name for your SAPI target
• srcs - any additional sources that you‘d like to include with your Sandboxed API library - typically, it’s not necessary, unless you want to provide your SAPI Library sandbox definition in a .cc file, and not in the sandbox.h file.
• hdrs - as with srcs. Typically your sandbox definition (sandbox.h) should go here, or empty, if embedded SAPI library is used, and the default sandbox policy is sufficient.
• functions - a list of functions that you'd like to use in your host code. Leaving this list empty will try to export and wrap all functions found in the library.
• embed - whether the SAPI library should be embedded inside host code, so the SAPI Sandbox can be initialized with the ::sapi::Sandbox::Sandbox(FileToc*) constructor.
• lib - (mandatory) the library target you want to sandbox and expose to the host code.
• lib_name - (mandatory) name of the object which is proxying your library functions from the functions list. You will call functions from the sandboxed library via this object.
• input_files - list of source files, which SAPI interface generator should scan for library‘s function declarations. Library’s exported headers are always scanned, so input_files can usually be left empty.
• namespace - a C++ namespace identifier to place API object defined in lib_name into. Defaults to sapigen.
• deps** - a list of any additional dependency targets to add. Typically not necessary.
• header - name of the header file to use instead of the generated one. Do not use if you want to auto-generate the code.

sapi_library() Rule Targets

For the above definition, sapi_library() build rule provides the following targets:

• zlib-sapi - sandboxed library, substitiution for normal cc_library; consists of zlib_sapi.bin and sandbox dependencies
• zlib-sapi.interface - generated library interface
• zlib-sapi.embed - cc_embed_data() target used to embed sandboxee in the binary. See bazel/embed_data.bzl.
• zlib-sapi.bin - sandboxee binary, consists of small communication stub and the library that is being sandboxed.

Interface Generation

zlib-sapi target creates target library with small communication stub wrapped in Sandbox2. To be able to use the stub and code within the sanbox, you should generate the interface file.

There are two options:

1. Add dependency on zlib-sapi.interface. This will auto-generate a header that you can include in your code - the header name is of the form: TARGET_NAME.sapi.h.
2. Run bazel build TARGET_NAME.interface, save generated header in your project and include it in the code. You will also need to add the header argument to the sapi_library() rule to indicate that you will skip code generation.

Sandbox Description (sandbox.h)

Note: If the default SAPI Sandbox policy is sufficient, and the constructor used is ::sapi::Sandbox::Sandbox(FileToc*), then this file might not be necessary.

In this step you will prepare the sandbox definition file (typically named sandbox.h) for your library.

The goal of this is to tell the SAPI code where the sandboxed library can be found, and how it should be contained.

At first, you should tell the SAPI code what your sandboxed library should be allowed to do in terms of security policies and other process constraints. In order to do that, you will have to implement and instantiate an object based on the ::sapi::Sandbox class.

This object will also specify where your SAPI Library can be found and how it should be executed (though you can depend on default settings).

A working example of such SAPI object definition file can be found here.

In order to familiarize yourself with the Sandbox2 policies, you might want to take a look at the Sandbox2 documenation.