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Koa-Authz

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Koa-Authz is an authorization middleware for Koa, it's based on Node-Casbin: https://github.com/casbin/node-casbin.

Installation

use casbin v2.x

npm install casbin@2 koa-authz@2 --save

use casbin v3.x

npm install casbin@3 koa-authz@3 --save

Simple Example

constcasbin=require('casbin')constKoa=require('koa')constapp=newKoa()constauthz=require('koa-authz')// responseapp.use(async(ctx,next)=>{conststart=newDate()awaitnext()console.log(newDate()-start)})// use authz middlewareapp.use(authz({newEnforcer: async()=>{// load the casbin model and policy from files, database is also supported.constenforcer=awaitcasbin.newEnforcer('authz_model.conf','authz_policy.csv')returnenforcer}}))// reload routesconstrouter=require('koa-router')({prefix: '/user'})router.get('/',(ctx)=>{ctx.body={name: 'Chalin',age: 26}})router.put('/',(ctx)=>{ctx.body={status: 'success'}})app.use(router.routes(),router.allowedMethods())app.listen(3000)

Use a customized authorizer

This package provides BasicAuthorizer, it uses HTTP Basic Authentication as the authentication method. If you want to use another authentication method like OAuth, you needs to extends BasicAuthorizer as below:

classMyAuthorizerextendsBasicAuthorizer{// override functiongetUserName(){const{ username }=this.ctx.state.userreturnusername}}app.use(authz({newEnforcer: async()=>{// load the casbin model and policy from files, database is also supported.constenforcer=awaitcasbin.newEnforcer('examples/authz_model.conf','examples/authz_policy.csv')returnenforcer},authorizer: (ctx,option)=>newMyAuthorizer(ctx,option)}))

How to control the access

The authorization determines a request based on {subject, object, action}, which means what subject can perform what action on what object. In this plugin, the meanings are:

  1. subject: the logged-on user name
  2. object: the URL path for the web resource like "dataset1/item1"
  3. action: HTTP method like GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, or the high-level actions you defined like "read-file", "write-blog"

For how to write authorization policy and other details, please refer to the Casbin's documentation.

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License

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.

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