Authorize is a rule based authorization module for your elixir app.
Authorize walks through rules in your resource to determine if it grants authorization, or not. These rules are easily created using a DSL.
Any rule can return three states:
:ok: grand access (return:ok):next: got to next rule:error: return{:error, description}
How this translates to code is as follows:
defmodule Item do
use Authorize
defstruct user_id: nil, private?: false, invisible?: false
authorize do
# signature of rule:
# rule(
# actions: one or a list of actions [optional], if not included this rule
# applies to all actions
# description: a description of the the rule, this will be returned as the
# 'reason'.
# struct_or_changeset: the struct or changeset that you wish to apply the
# rule to.
# actor: a data structure that describes the actor of the action. This will
# be the user in most cases.
# )
rule "authorize super admins for everything", _, actor do
if actor.super_admin?, do: :ok, else: :next
end
# An :error response will stop the chain, as will an :ok response.
# When returning :next it will evaluate the next rule.
rule [:read], "only admins can read invisible items", struct_or_changeset, actor do
item = get_struct(struct_or_changeset)
cond do
item.invisible? and actor.admin? -> :ok
item.invisible? -> :error
:else -> :next
end
end
# Action can be a list of actions, a single action such as ':read',
# or be completely omitted (equivalent to :all)
rule :read, "actors can read their own private items", struct_or_changeset, actor do
item = get_struct(struct_or_changeset)
if item.private? and item.user_id == actor.id do
:ok
else
:next
end
end
rule [:read], "admins can read private items", struct_or_changeset, actor do
if actor.admin? and get_struct(struct_or_changeset).private?, do: :ok, else: :error
end
rule [:read], "all actors can read public items", struct_or_changeset, actor do
if get_struct(struct_or_changeset).public?, do: :ok
end
end
end
defmodule User do
defstruct id: nil, name: nil, admin?: false, super_admin?: false
endWe can now use this authorization module in the following way, with ordered rules (executed from top to bottom):
iex> normal_user = %User{id: 1, name: "Ed", admin?: false}
...> admin = %User{id: 2, name: "Admin", admin?: true}
...> invisible_item = %Item{private?: true, invisible?: true, user_id: 2}
...> private_item = %Item{private?: true, user_id: 2}
iex> Item.authorize(invisible_item, normal_user, :read)
{:error, "only admins can read invisible items"}
iex> Item.authorize(invisible_item, admin, :read)
:ok
iex> Item.authorize(private_item, normal_user, :read)
{:error, "no authorization rule found"}
iex> Item.authorize(private_item, admin, :read, include_reason: true)
{:ok, "members can read their own private items"}You can define a rule with rule [action], description, struct_or_changeset, actor
With rule you are defining a rule.
The first argument is the action this rule applies to. I would recommend to use the well known CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) actions, but you can also use something else (Authorize does not care). If you leave the first argument out and start with the description, the rule will apply to all actions.
The second argument is a description, when this rule returns :error this will be passed as the reason.
struct_or_changeset and actor are the variables that you can use in the rule's body. The struct_or_changeset is the resource, and actor is the actor that tries to perform the action. This can be anything you like. To make it work well with ecto we provide two helper methods is_changeset?/1 and get_struct/1. is_changeset/1 will return true if struct_or_changeset is a changeset. get_struct/1 returns the struct. If the item is a changeset, it will return changeset.data.
If there is no rule found that returns :error or :ok, the authorize/3 function will return {:error, "no authorization rule found"}
More examples in test/authorize_test.
If available in Hex, the package can be installed as:
- Add
authorizeto your list of dependencies inmix.exs:
def deps do
[{:authorize, "~> 1.0.0"}]
end- Ensure
authorizeis started before your application:
def application do
[applications: [:authorize]]
end
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