Restrict access page based on role of user
Hi everyone, I am working on set permission levels for user something like super admin, admin, manager, user.
I want to limit access to some pages with given permission levels. For example, user will not be able to access user-management dashboard but other roles have. I see we defined authRequired: true in main.wasp. Can we do the same with set role in this file main.wasp also?
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Currently, Wasp does not provide built-in support for role-based access control (RBAC). However, you can implement it on your own. Here's a general approach you can follow:
1. Add a
role field to the User entity in your Wasp application.
2. In your queries/actions, check the value of the user's role. Based on the role, you can decide if the user should be able to execute that query/action or not. If they are not allowed, you can throw an HttpError 403.
3. For protecting pages, you can use the authRequired property. If you set it to true, only authenticated users can access the page. Unauthenticated users are redirected to a route defined by the app.auth.onAuthFailedRedirectTo field. However, this does not check for specific roles. You would need to implement additional logic in your page components to check for the user's role and render content accordingly.
Here's an example of how you can set authRequired to true for a page:
Please note that you can only use authRequired if your app uses one of the available auth methods. If authRequired is set to true, the page's React component (specified by the component property) receives the user object as a prop. You can use this user object to check the user's role and render content accordingly.
For more complex role-based access control, you might want to consider introducing a concept of UserGroup or Role entity and have a many-to-many relation between UserGroup and User. Then when trying to do something with a resource, you can check if the user belongs to the appropriate group.
Please note that these are just general guidelines and you might need to adjust them based on your specific requirements and application's architecture.
Sources:
- Discord Support Thread (https://discord.com/channels/686873244791210014/1211733266235916358)
- Wasp Docs (https://wasp-lang.dev/docs/auth/overview#protecting-a-page-with-authrequired)
- Github Issue (https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp/issues/584)
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Sorry @binhnguyenquoc., I seem to be having a bit of trouble. Don't worry though, I've pinged my support and they will try to fix me up! :technologist:
Perhaps try again in 15mins?authRequired is quite simple, it just says that page expects user to bauthenticated.
For what you want to do, yo uwilll want to check in your operatinos (actions/queries) the role of the user and then based on that throw 403 or let them perform the operation. So it will be custom logic that you write.I have found issue that even set authRequired to True. The page is still be able to access without authentication.
How is that, can you provide more info?
Just to be clear,
authRequired: true doesn't load page for user if they are not authenticated. However, since this is on client, this is not a real security measure -> all the client code is always accessible since it is on the client, so it is really just a DX thing. This is expained in the docs I belive.