permittere

permittere is a simple permissions library. Note that this library is new and could use feature ideas.

The word permittere comes from Latin, meaning roughly "allow", "grant", or "permit" (see here).

Usage

There's not much documentation on how to use it right now. There's this example, but for the details you'll have to skim the code (there is documentation to help with it).

const { ManagedPermissionMap } = require("permittere");

const map = new ManagedPermissionMap({
  'myParentPermission': {
    name: 'myParentPermission', // I know that that is slightly redundant but that's fine for now
    default: true
  },
  'myChildPermission': {
    name: 'myChildPermission',
    default: false,
    parents: [ 'myParentPermission' ] // Because this has a parent permission, the value of this permission will only matter if it was set directly (i.e. the entity explicitly has this permission)
  }
});

/* Some examples with this map */
map.hasPermission('myParentPermission', {}) // (1) true; the entity has no explicit permissions so it uses the default
map.hasPermission('myParentPermission', { 'myParentPermission': false }) // (2) false; the entity explicitly does not have myParentPermission
map.hasPermission('myParentPermission', { 'myChildPermission': false }) // (3) true; children of a permission do not affect the parent
map.hasPermission('myChildPermission', {}) // (4) true; the parent permission is true which takes priority
map.hasPermission('myChildPermission', { 'myChildPermission': false }) // (5) false; myChildPermission is explicitly set to false, which takes priority
map.hasPermission('myChildPermission', { 'myParentPermission': false, 'myChildPermission': true }) // (6); as with case 5, an explicitly set permission takes priority

Licence

Copyright 2022 tecc

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