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Payroll API Authentication and Context

Summary​

Payroll APIs expect gateway-forwarded bearer, tenant, actor, and correlation context, while service-local authentication and role enforcement remain incomplete.

Audience​

Frontend and backend developers, QA and support engineers, architects, security reviewers, and implementation partners.

Overview​

Confirmed context flow​

The compatibility monolith controllers require authorization, establishing the client-contract expectation for bearer authentication. Gateway routing forwards requests to Payroll Service. Payroll derives tenant and actor context from forwarded claims/request context and uses explicit tenant predicates and persistence filters. Correlation middleware accepts or creates correlation context and returns it on responses.

Enforcement classification​

  • Authentication expectation: bearer context for business operations.
  • Authorization: no Payroll Service route-level role/policy metadata is confirmed. Payroll-admin, Finance, employee-self, and privileged access rules Require confirmation.
  • Missing tenant: no consistent endpoint-level status mapping is implemented; behavior Requires confirmation.
  • Direct exposure: must not be assumed equivalent to gateway-mediated access.
  • 401/403: no Payroll Service-specific mapping is documented because local enforcement is not registered.

Exact token claims, headers, signing details, key material, configuration names, and development trust mechanisms are intentionally excluded.

Source References​

  • microservices/src/payroll-service/Program.cs
  • microservices/src/payroll-service/Infrastructure/Persistence.cs
  • microservices/src/gateway-api/Program.cs
  • microservices/src/shared-kernel/Middleware/CorrelationIdMiddleware.cs
  • Controllers/PayrollController.cs

See Also​

Keywords​

  • Payroll API
  • Payroll API Authentication and Context

Revision Information​

  • Status: Draft
  • Last reviewed: 2026-07-15
  • Review cycle: Quarterly