spool-permission
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Permissions built for speed, security, and scalability
The Permissions spool is built to be used on Fabrix. It's purpose is to allow for complex ERP style permissions down to the model level as well as restrict routes based on permissions.
Dependencies
Supported ORMs
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spool-sequelize |
Supported Webserver
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spool-express |
Install
$ npm install --save spool-permission
Configuration
First you need to add this spool to your main configuration :
// config/main.ts
export const main = {
// ...
spools: [
// ...
require('@fabirx/spool-permission').PermissionsSpool,
// ...
]
// ...
}
Then permissions config:
// config/permissions.ts
export const permissions = {
//Role name to use for anonymous users
defaultRole: 'public',
//Role name to add to users on create
defaultRegisteredRole: 'registered',
// Name of the association field for Role under User model
userRoleFieldName: 'roles',
// add all models as resources in database on initialization
modelsAsResources: true,
// Initial data added when DB is empty
fixtures: {
roles: [],
resources: [],
permissions: []
},
// The default super admin username
defaultAdminUsername: 'admin',
// The default super admin password
defaultAdminPassword: 'admin1234'
}
You also need to have a User model like:
import { User as PermissionsUser } from '@fabrix/spool-permissions/dist/models'
import { defaults, defaultsDeep } from 'lodash'
class User extends PermissionsUser {
static config(app, Sequelize) {
return defaultsDeep(PermissionsUser.config, {
options: {
// your options
}
})
}
static schema(app, Sequelize) {
return defaults(PermissionsUser.schema, {
// your schema
})
}
static associate(models) {
PermissionsUser.associate(models)
// your associations
}
}
Usage
Default Admin
When your applications starts, if there are no users in your database, permission will create a super admin using your defaults
Manage roles
Use the native sequelize model under this.app.models.Roles
, if you need initial roles just add them on permissions config file under fixtures.roles
.
Manage resources
Use the native sequelize model under this.app.models.Resources
, if you need initial resources just add them on permissions config file under fixtures.resources
.
Manage model permissions
Static declaration under config
//config/permissions.ts
export const permissions = {
// ...
fixtures: {
roles: [{
name: 'role_name',
public_name: 'Role name'
}],
resources: [{
type: 'model',
name: 'modelName',
public_name: 'Model name'
}],
permissions: [{
role_name: 'role_name',
resourceName: 'modelName',
action: 'create'
}, {
role_name: 'role_name',
resourceName: 'modelName',
action: 'update'
}, {
role_name: 'role_name',
resourceName: 'modelName',
action: 'destroy'
}, {
role_name: 'role_name',
resourceName: 'modelName',
action: 'access'
}]
}
}
Owner permissions
This spool can manage owner permissions on model instance, to do this you need to declare your permissions like this :
{
roleName: 'roleName',
relation: 'owner',
resourceName: 'modelName',
action: 'create'
}
You can create this permissions with sequelize model, with fixtures options or with PermissionsService like this:
this.app.services.PermissionsService.grant('roleName', 'modelName', 'create', 'owner').then(perm => () => {})
.catch(err => this.app.log.error(err))
Then you need to declare an owners
attributes on your models like this :
export class Item extends Model {
static config(app, Sequelize) {
return {
options: { }
}
}
public static get resolver() {
return SequelizeResolver
}
public static associate (models) {
models.Item.belongsToMany(models.User, {
as: 'owners',
through: 'UserItem'//If many to many is needed
})
}
}
If the model is under a spool and you don't have access to it you can add a model with same name on your project, let's do this for the model User witch is already in spool-permission and spool-proxy-passport:
import { User as PermissionsUser } from '@fabrix/spool-permissions/dist/models'
import { defaults, defaultsDeep } from 'lodash'
class User extends PermissionsUser {
static config(app, Sequelize) {
return defaultsDeep(PermissionsUser.config, {
options: {
// your options
}
})
}
static schema(app, Sequelize) {
return defaults(PermissionsUser.schema, {
// your schema
})
}
static associate(models) {
PermissionsUser.associate(models)
// your associations
}
}
Like this you can add owners
permissions on all preferred models.
WARNING! Currently owner
permissions are not supported for update
destroy
actions on multiple items (with no ID)
Dynamically with PermissionsService
// Grant a permission to create 'modelName' to 'roleName'
this.app.services.PermissionsService.grant('roleName', 'modelName', 'create').then(perm => () => {})
.catch(err => this.app.log.error(err))
// Revoke a permission to create 'modelName' to 'roleName'
this.app.services.PermissionsService.revoke('roleName', 'modelName', 'create').then(perm => () => {})
.catch(err => this.app.log.error(err))
Manage route permissions
Route permissions can be added directly under route definition:
export const routes = {
// ...
'/api/myroute': {
'GET': 'DefaultController.myroute',
config: {
app: {
permissions: {
resourceName: 'myrouteId',
roles: ['roleName']
}
}
}
}
// ...
}
When the DB is empty all routes permissions will be created, if you make any change after this you'll have to update permissions yourself.
You can use PermissionsService anytime you want to grant or revoke routes permissions.
Policies
You have 2 policies to manage permissions, they return a 403 when user is not allowed :
CheckPermissions.checkRoute
This one will check your route permissions, if they are no explicit permissions then the route is accessible. The easy way to setup is :
//config/policies.ts
'*': [ 'CheckPermissions.checkRoute' ]
//or
ViewController: [ 'CheckPermissions.checkRoute' ]
CheckPermissions.checkModel
This one will check your model permissions, if there are no explicit permissions models are not accessible
//config/policies.ts
TapestryController: [ 'CheckPermissions.checkModel' ] // To check permissions on models