goRBAC provides a lightweight role-based access control implementation in Golang.

For the purposes of this package:

* an identity has one or more roles.
* a role requests access to a permission.
* a permission is given to a role.

Thus, RBAC has the following model:

* many to many relationship between identities and roles.
* many to many relationship between roles and permissions.
* roles can have a parent role (inheriting permissions).

Install the package:

$ go get github.com/mikespook/gorbac

Import the package:

import github.com/mikespook/gorbac

Get a goRBAC instance:

rbac := gorbac.New()

Specified permissions and parent roles for a role. If the role is not existing, new will be created:

rbac.Add("editor", []string{"edit.article"}, nil)	
rbac.Set("master", []string{"del.article"}, []string{"editor"})

The mainly difference between Add and Set is:

• Add keeps the permissions and the parents which are already existed;
• Set covers them with new.

Remove a role:

rbac.Remove("guest")

Get a role for more fine-grained controls:

rbac.Get("admin")

Check if a role has a permission:

rbac.IsGranted("editor", "edit.article", nil)

The 3rd param, Assertion function is used for more fine-grained testing:

rbac.IsGranted("editor", "edit.article", 
	func(role, permission string, rbac* Rbac) bool {
		return article.Owner == User.Id
})

Revoke a permission from a role:

rbac.Get("master").RevokePermission("del.article")

Remove a role's parent:

rbac.Get("editor").RemoveParent("auth-user")

In a real case, it is good for checking if a role existed:

if role := rbac.Get("not-exists"); role == nil {
	// Not exists;
} else {
	// Exists. 	
}

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