defmodule Acl do @moduledoc """ # Acl ACL or access control list is a list of permissions attached to a specific object for certain users. ## ACL guide it has three essential Components Roles,Resources (handles as resource), and Rules. ### Roles Roles (users/user groups) are entities you want to give or deny access to. you can add a new role by Acl.addRole(%{"role" => "role", "parent" => "parent"}) in roles parent is optional, and you may choose to provide it or not. ### Res Res are entities you want to give or deny access for. they can be anything real or arbitrary. you can add a new res by Acl.addRes(%{"res" => "res", "parent" => "parent"}) in res parent is optional and you may choose to provide it or not. ### Rules Rules are definition for your set of permissions. you can add rule by addRule(role, res, permission \\1, action \\nil ,condition \\1 ) and you can check if a role or permission exists by hasAccess(role, permission \\"read", res \\nil, action \\nil) valid inputs for permission are "POST","GET","PUT" ,"DELETE","read","write","delete","edit". permissions have downward flow. i.e if you have defined permissions for a higher operation it automatically assigns them permissions for lower operations. like "edit" grants permissions for all operations. their hierarchy is in this order "read" < "write" < "delete" < "edit" "GET" < "POST" < "DELETE" < "PUT" you can use actions argument to define actions for your resources or not use thema t all and skip sending them in arguments. like i have a resource as maps and i can define actions like display/resize etc. now actions can be pages in a web application or can be tables for an api or can be functions inside a controller. you can be as creative as you wish and last argument condition is to define permission levels (0,1,2,3), and they map in this order. 0 -> "none" 1 -> "self" 2 -> "related" 3 -> "all" you can add a res with empty string and it will be used as super resource. granting permission to that resource is equivalent to making a superadmin and any role who have access to this resource will have all permissions. """ alias Acl.ACL.RoleService alias Acl.ACL.RuleService alias Acl.ACL.ResourceService @doc false def hasAccess(role, permission \\ "read", res \\ nil, action \\ nil) do RuleService.checkRule(role, res, action, permissionTranslate(permission)) end @doc false def addRule(role, res, permission \\ 1, action \\ nil, condition \\ 1) do RuleService.addRule(role, res, permission, action, condition) end @doc false def getRule(params) do RuleService.getRule(params) end @doc false def addRole(params) do RoleService.create(params) end @doc false def addRes(params) do ResourceService.create(params) end @doc false def allowAccess(%{__struct__: _} = rule) do case RuleService.allowRule(rule) do true -> {:ok, :allowed} false -> {:error, "rule not found, perhaps create new rule?"} end end @doc false def allowAccess(params) do case RuleService.allowRule(params) do true -> {:ok, :allowed} false -> {:error, "rule not found, perhaps create new rule?"} end end @doc false def denyAccess(%{__struct__: _} = rule) do case RuleService.denyRule(rule) do true -> {:ok, :denied} false -> {:error, "rule not found, perhaps create new rule?"} end end @doc false def denyAccess(params) do case RuleService.denyRule(params) do true -> {:ok, :denied} false -> {:error, "rule not found, perhaps create new rule?"} end end @doc false defp permissionTranslate(permission) do case permission do "POST" -> "write" "GET" -> "read" "PUT" -> "edit" "DELETE" -> "delete" "write" -> "write" "read" -> "read" "edit" -> "edit" "delete" -> "delete" _ -> nil end end end