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Proposed changes
This adds an engine that is able to check permission requests.
In the relation model, the key
UserID
was renamed toSubjectID
as it can contain users and user sets alike.The algorithm works by breadth first search. It walks the graph of relations that apply to one subject recursively and checks whether there is a path from
subject
toobject
containing an edge labeledrelation name
.The following example pictures simple relations and the corresponding graph (notation like in the zanzibar paper):
Request could be e.g.: