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Flask Casbin

Provide context local casbin dynamic enforcer to your flask project
Updated 4 months ago

Official Version Available:

https://github.com/pycasbin/flask-authz/

Flask-Casbin

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Flask-Casbin is an extension that provide Casbin ACL functionality to your Flask project

Installation

Install Flask-Casbin with pip:

pip install Flask-Casbin

Install Flask-Casbin with poetry:

poetry add Flask-Casbin

Example

This is an example Flask application:

from flask import Flask, abort
from flask_casbin import CasbinManager, IOAdapter, current_enforcer

app = Flask(__name__)

# config
app.config["CASBIN_MODEL_CONF"] = "./model.conf"

acl = CasbinManager(app)

@acl.policy_loader
def load_policy():
    # some readable object for example based on current user
    return IOAdapter(current_user.policy())

@app.route('/data/<id_:int>')
def get_data(id_):
    # curent_user ist global authenticated user
    current_enforcer.enforce(f"user:{current_user.name}", f"data:{id}", "read") or abort(401)
    
    # Get data
    data = db.get_data(id_)
    return { data_id: data.id, data: data.payload }

Todo

  • Decorators for ACL check
  • Policy adapters
  • Dynamic Policy Adapter (Flask-SQLAlchemy)
  • More tests

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