Provide Getter for Context from Request and attributes of the Entity

[maxcshui]

Category

User level API changes

Describe the feature you'd like to request

Currently, both Request and Entity do not expose the API for user to retrieve the Context of the Request and Attribute of the Entity.
In my use case, I need to access both Request and Entity information for purposes like authorization logging and mapping these fields into the OCSF (Open Cybersecurity Framework) format. However, my current option is limited to using the to_string() method to store the entire context of the entity and request in the authorization log.
If cedar could introduce features such as Request.context() -> Option<impl Iterator<Item = (String, RestrictedExpression)>>, Entity.attributes() -> Option<HashMap<String, RestrictedExpression>> , it would significantly enhance my authorization log by providing additional information. It would be beneficial for user to access both fields such that user could do some data manipulation and other purpose.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I used to_string() to log the whole string into the authorization log.

Additional context

No response

Is this something that you'd be interested in working on?

• 👋 I may be able to implement this feature request
• ⚠️ This feature might incur a breaking change

[yuana97]

+1
not an immediate issue for our team since we're interacting with cedar through a custom wrapper class, but this should probably be built in.

[khieta]

Thanks for the suggestion, we agree that would be useful! I'm adding it to our backlog for now, but I'll also mark it as "good first issue" since this is a small API change that we would love a PR for 😉