PerlDancer / PerlDancer/Dancer2-Plugin-Auth-Extensible

Feature request: Rights handling based on roles

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Description

I need a possibility to define rights based on roles. The roles I get are ActiveDirectory groups the user is a member of (e.g. "developers", "support", "operations"). When restricting a route, e.g. "create_item", I do not want to list the roles that are allowed to do this, but the right the user has to have. This right could be called "create_item" or more general "item_management", depending on the granularity needed.

Now I want to define a mapping in the config file that says:

    create_item: developers, operations

which means that you can create an item if you are in the developers or in the operations group. One could extend this to be able to define that a right needs all roles listed.

So if a new role comes into play, I do not have to change the code but only the config.

We should add new keywords like require_right and so on.

Is this something others would also need? I could try to provide a pull request.

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No files or tests are named. Start by tracing the existing route restriction keywords and configuration handling around create_item; clarify the require_right mapping semantics, including whether rights require any or all mapped roles, before defining completion.

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perl
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Feature
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