Manage Laravel User abilities that target Users
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Maintainer Username: unstoppablecarl
Maintainer Contact: unstoppablecarlolsen@gmail.com (Carl Olsen)
Package Create Date: 2017-07-24
Package Last Update: 2019-03-06
Language: PHP
License: MIT
Last Refreshed: 2024-03-27 03:07:31
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Arbiter

Manage Laravel User abilities that target Users.

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About

Determining a way to authorize what actions can be performed by one User on another may seem like a simple problem at first. Most Role based permission modules are designed to allow multiple roles per user. This is an extremely powerful and flexible design pattern but creates a hard to define authorization case: When User-A can update users with Role-1, and User-B has Role-1 and Role-2, how should your application determine if User-A update User-B?

Arbiter provides a solution to this problem without getting in the way of an existing or separate multi-role based authorization system.

Requirements

  • PHP >= 5.5.9
  • Laravel >= 5.2

Installation

The preferred method of installation is via Packagist and Composer. Run the following command to install the package and add it as a requirement to your project's composer.json:

composer require unstoppablecarl/arbiter

Overview

Each User has exactly one Primary Role. Primary Roles are used to determine what actions a user can perform on other users and vice-versa. Each Primary Role is identified with a unique name string.

The UserWithPrimaryRole interface is implemented on the User model.

<?php
interface UserWithPrimaryRole {

    /*
     * Get the Primary Role of this user.
     * @return string 
     */
    public function getPrimaryRoleName();
}

The developer implements the interface with a strategy for determining what the Primary Role of a user is.

Primary Role Implementation Strategies

  • Using an existing multi-role based system:
    • Define some roles as "Primary". Each User has exactly one Primary Role.
    • Define a numeric priority to each Role. The Primary Role of a User is the Role with the highest priority assigned to them.
  • Users have exactly one Role which is used as the Primary Role. This is often a good starting point projects where it is unclear how complex the roles/permissions requirements will become.

Basic Usage

User

Implement the UserWithPrimaryRole Interface on your User model.

See UnstoppableCarl\Arbiter\Contracts\UserWithPrimaryRole

<?php

namespace App;

use UnstoppableCarl\Arbiter\Contracts\UserWithPrimaryRole;

class User implements UserWithPrimaryRole
{
    public function getPrimaryRoleName()
    {
        // @TODO implement Primary Role strategy
        
        // simple example
        // not recommended
        return $this->primary_role ?: 'default_primary_role';
    }
} 

User Policy

Create App\Policies\UserPolicy and set it as the policy for the User model in App\Providers\AuthServiceProvider

See UserPolicy

<?php

namespace App\Policies;

use UnstoppableCarl\Arbiter\Policies\UserPolicy as ArbiterUserPolicy;

class UserPolicy extends ArbiterUserPolicy
{

}

User Authority

Create and bind an implementation of the UserAuthorityContract in your AuthServiceProvider or continue with the Config Based User Authority below.

Config Based Implementation

Arbiter includes a simple config based UserAuthority implementation to quickly get your project up and running.

ArbiterServiceProvider

Add the Service Provider to config/app.php

UnstoppableCarl\Arbiter\Providers\ArbiterServiceProvider::class,

Configure

Publish the config file.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider=UnstoppableCarl\Arbiter\Providers\ArbiterServiceProvider

Primary Role Abilities can be configured in config/arbiter.php.

Customizing The User Policy

The UserPolicy functionality is organized into seperate traits to allow use of only the functionality you want.

UserPolicy Trait: HasUserAuthority

HasUserAuthority

Adds a reference to the UserAuthority instance.

  • Required for HasAbilities and HasGetters traits.
  • Gets the primary role of ability targets that implement the UserWithPrimaryRole interface via a toPrimaryRole method.

Trait: HasAbilities

HasAbilities

Adds the typical abilities of a UserPolicy matching them to the methods and abilities of the UserAuthority.

  • Requires HasUserAuthority trait.
  • Methods
    • create
    • update
    • delete
    • view
    • changePrimaryRoleFrom
    • changePrimaryRoleTo
    • changePrimaryRole

Trait: HasGetters

HasGetters

Adds getters to allow retrieval of all primary roles a user can perform given abilities on.

  • Requires HasUserAuthority trait.
  • Methods
    • getViewablePrimaryRoles
    • getCreatablePrimaryRoles
    • getChangeableFromPrimaryRoles
    • getChangeableToPrimaryRoles
    • getDeletablePrimaryRoles
    • getPrimaryRoles

Trait: HasTargetSelfOverrides

HasTargetSelfOverrides

Allows overriding the returned value of a UserPolicy ability check, when the source and target of the check are the same User. The ability check is overriden by using the before method behavior of Laravel Policies.

Adding User Authority Abilities

The following shows how to add an ability to the UserPolicy that checks a custom ability set in the UserAuthority.

<?php

namespace App\Policies;

use UnstoppableCarl\Arbiter\Contracts\UserWithPrimaryRole;
use UnstoppableCarl\Arbiter\Policies\UserPolicy as ArbiterUserPolicy;

class UserPolicy extends ArbiterUserPolicy
{
    /**
     * Can ban users with $target Primary Role
     * @param UserWithPrimaryRole $source
     * @param UserWithPrimaryRole|null $target
     * @return
     */
    public function ban(UserWithPrimaryRole $source, $target = null)
    {
        $source  = $this->toPrimaryRole($source);
        $target  = $this->toPrimaryRole($target);
        $ability = 'ban';
        return $this->userAuthority()->canOrAny($source, $ability, $target);
    }
}

Running Tests

Run Unit Tests

$ composer phpunit

Run Codesniffer (psr-2)

$ composer phpcs

Run both

$ composer test

Contributing

Contributions and Pull Requests welcome!

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Authors

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details