NAME

Authorization::AccessControl - hybrid RBAC/ABAC access control

SYNOPSIS

use Authorization::AccessControl qw(acl);

acl
  ->role('admin')
    ->grant(User => 'create')
    ->grant(User => 'delete')
    ->grant(User => 'update')
  ->role
    ->grant(User => 'search')
    ->grant(User => 'Update', { self => true })
    ->grant(Book => 'search')
    ->grant(Book => 'update', { owned => true })
    ->grant(Book => 'delete', { owned => true });

acl->role("super")->grant(Book => "delete"); 

acl->request->with_resource('User')->with_action->('create');          # no

acl->request->with_roles('admin')->with_resource('User')
  ->with_action->('create')->permitted;                                # yes

acl->request->with_action('search')->with_resource('User')->permitted; # yes

acl->request->with_roles('admin')->with_resource('User')
  ->with_action('create')->permitted;                                  # yes

acl->request->with_resource('Book')->with_action('delete')
  ->permitted;                                                         # no

acl->request->with_resource('Book')->with_action('delete')
  ->with_attributes({ owned => true })
  ->permitted;                                                         # yes

my $user = {id => 4};
my $get_attrs = sub($obj) { { owned => $obj->{owner_id} == $user->{id} } };
acl->request->with_resource('Book')->with_action('delete')
  ->with_get_attrs($get_attrs)
  ->yield(sub () { { owner_id => 4, name => "War & Peace" } })
  ->granted(sub($entity) { say $entity })                      # "War & Peace"
  ->is_granted;                                                        # yes

DESCRIPTION

This is a lightweight library for implementing fine-grained access control in applications via an intuitive and expressive interface. It features a hybrid approach, including aspects of both Role-based access control (RBAC) and Attribute-based access control (ABAC).

At a high level, the workflow is to populate an access control list with privilege grants, then initiate a request against that list with the specific environment parameters, finally checking if the request is permitted by the list

FUNCTIONS

acl

Returns a global persistent instance of Authorization::AccessControl::ACL. There's nothing special about this instance other than being globally accessible -- if your usage requires it, you can manually make as many ACL instances as you wish and maintain them as you like. This function exists purely as a convenience

Not exported by default.

AUTHOR

Mark Tyrrell <mark@tyrrminal.dev>

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2024 Mark Tyrrell

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