RBAC

(Hierarchical Role Based Access Control)

RBAC is the authorization library for NodeJS.

Motivation

I needed hierarchical role based access control for my projects based on ExpressJS. I had one requirement. This structure must be permanently stored in various storages. For example in memory or Mongoose. Because there is a lot of options for storing of data and many of them are asynchronous. I created asynchronous API. Please, if you found any bug or you need custom API, create an issue or pull request.

Documentation

Link to Documentation

Install

npm install rbac

Usage

var RBAC = require('rbac');
var rbac = new RBAC({
    roles        : ['superadmin', 'admin', 'user', 'guest'],
    permissions  : {
        user     : ['create', 'delete'],
        password : ['change', 'forgot'],
        article  : ['create'],
        rbac     : ['update']
    },
    grants: {
        guest: ['create_user', 'forgot_password'],
        user: ['change_password'],
        admin: ['user', 'delete_user', 'update_rbac'],
        superadmin: ['admin']
    }
}, function(err, rbac) {
    if(err) {
        throw err;
    }
}); 

Usage with express

var express = require('express');
var RBAC = require('rbac');
var secure = require('rbac/controllers/express');

//your custom controller for express
function adminController(req, res, next) {
    res.send('Hello admin');
}

var app = express();
var rbac = new RBAC({
    roles: ['admin', 'user']  
}, function(err, rbac) {
    if(err) throw err;

    //setup express routes
    app.use('/admin', secure.hasRole(rbac, 'admin'), adminController);
});

Check permissions

rbac.can('admin', 'create', 'article', function(err, can) {
    if(err) {
        throw err; //process error
    }
        
    if(can) {
        console.log('Admin is able create article');    
    }
});

//or you can use instance of admin role

rbac.getRole('admin', function(err, admin) {
    if(err) {
        throw err; //process error
    }

    if(!admin) {
        return console.log('Role does not exists');
    }

    admin.can('create', 'article', function(err, can) {
        if(err) throw err; //process error
        
        if(can) {
            console.log('Admin is able create article');    
        }
    }); 
});

Mongoose user model

Please take a look on plugin mongoose-hrbac

Build documentation

npm run doc

Running Tests

npm run test        

Build

npm run build     

Credits

• Zlatko Fedor

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Zlatko Fedor zlatkofedor@cherrysro.com

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