Introduce hasPermission mixin for checking rbac in frontend #1004
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Prereq of #657
This PR changes how the frontend verifies if a user is allowed to access something.
It refactors the permissions table we use to secure the API so that it can also be used in the frontend via a new mixin called
hasPermission
.hasPermission(scope)
will return true/false depending on whether the current user has the necessarily team role for the given scope.This is a much more declarative approach than testing specific role levels in each view. It also means we have a single source of truth for the rbac table.
You may note the mixin is called
hasPermission
, whilst its backend equivalent is calledneedsPermission
. This reflects the differences in behaviour between the two.hasPermission
returns a booleanneedsPermission
is a route preHandler that will reject an http request if the permission check fails