#!/usr/bin/perl package Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::Roles; use strict; use warnings; use Set::Object (); use Scalar::Util (); use Catalyst::Exception (); our $VERSION = '0.07'; sub check_user_roles { my ( $c, @roles ) = @_; local $@; eval { $c->assert_user_roles(@roles) }; } sub assert_user_roles { my ( $c, @roles ) = @_; my $user; if ( Scalar::Util::blessed( $roles[0] ) && $roles[0]->isa("Catalyst::Authentication::User") ) { $user = shift @roles; } $user ||= $c->user; unless ( $user ) { Catalyst::Exception->throw( "No logged in user, and none supplied as argument"); } Catalyst::Exception->throw("User does not support roles") unless $user->supports(qw/roles/); local $" = ", "; if ( $user->supports(qw/roles self_check/) ) { if ( $user->check_roles(@roles) ) { $c->log->debug("Role granted: @roles") if $c->debug; return 1; } else { $c->log->debug("Role denied: @roles") if $c->debug; Catalyst::Exception->throw("Missing roles"); } } else { my $have = Set::Object->new($user->roles); my $need = Set::Object->new(@roles); if ( $have->superset($need) ) { $c->log->debug("Role granted: @roles") if $c->debug; return 1; } else { $c->log->debug("Role denied: @roles") if $c->debug; my @missing = $need->difference($have)->members; Catalyst::Exception->throw("Missing roles: @missing"); } } } sub check_any_user_role { my ( $c, @roles ) = @_; local $@; eval { $c->assert_any_user_role(@roles) }; } sub assert_any_user_role { my ( $c, @roles ) = @_; my $user; if ( Scalar::Util::blessed( $roles[0] ) && $roles[0]->isa("Catalyst::Authentication::User") ) { $user = shift @roles; } $user ||= $c->user; unless ( $user ) { Catalyst::Exception->throw( "No logged in user, and none supplied as argument"); } Catalyst::Exception->throw("User does not support roles") unless $user->supports(qw/roles/); if ( $user->supports(qw/roles self_check_any/) ) { if ( $user->check_roles_any(@roles) ) { $c->log->debug("At least one role granted: @roles") if $c->debug; return 1; } else { $c->log->debug("Roles denied: @roles") if $c->debug; Catalyst::Exception->throw("Missing roles"); } } else { my $have = Set::Object->new($user->roles); my $need = Set::Object->new(@roles); if ( $have->intersection($need)->size > 0 ) { $c->log->debug("At least one role granted: @roles") if $c->debug; return 1; } else { $c->log->debug("Role denied: @roles") if $c->debug; Catalyst::Exception->throw( "Missing roles" ); } } } __PACKAGE__; __END__ =pod =head1 NAME Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::Roles - Role based authorization for Catalyst based on Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication =head1 SYNOPSIS use Catalyst qw/ Authentication Authentication::Store::ThatSupportsRoles Authorization::Roles /; sub delete : Local { my ( $self, $c ) = @_; $c->assert_user_roles( qw/admin/ ); # only admins can delete $c->model("Foo")->delete_it(); } =head1 DESCRIPTION Role based access control is very simple: every user has a list of roles, which that user is allowed to assume, and every restricted part of the app makes an assertion about the necessary roles. With C, if the user is a member in B of the required roles access is granted. Otherwise, access is denied. With C it is enough that the user is a member in B role. For example, if you have a CRUD application, for every mutating action you probably want to check that the user is allowed to edit. To do this, create an editor role, and add that role to every user who is allowed to edit. sub edit : Local { my ( $self, $c ) = @_; $c->assert_user_roles( qw/editor/ ); $c->model("TheModel")->make_changes(); } When this plugin checks the roles of a user it will first see if the user supports the self check method. When this is not supported the list of roles is extracted from the user using the C method. When this is supported, the C method will be used to delegate the role check to the user class. Classes like the one provided with L optimize the check this way. =head1 METHODS =over 4 =item assert_user_roles [ $user ], @roles Checks that the user (as supplied by the first argument, or, if omitted, C<< $c->user >>) has the specified roles. If for any reason (C<< $c->user >> is not defined, the user is missing a role, etc) the check fails, an error is thrown. You can either catch these errors with an eval, or clean them up in your C action. =item check_user_roles [ $user ], @roles Takes the same args as C, and performs the same check, but instead of throwing errors returns a boolean value. =item assert_any_user_role [ $user ], @roles Checks that the user (as supplied by the first argument, or, if omitted, C<< $c->user >>) has at least one of the specified roles. Other than that, works like C. =item check_any_user_role [ $user ], @roles Takes the same args as C, and performs the same check, but instead of throwing errors returns a boolean value. =back =head1 SEE ALSO L L =head1 AUTHOR Yuval Kogman Enothingmuch@woobling.orgE =head1 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE Copyright (c) 2008 the aforementioned authors. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut