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our $VERSION = '0.0001_01';
# (c) Matt S Trout 2006, all rights reserved
# this is free software under the same license as perl itself
=head1 NAME
DBIx::Class::Schema::RestrictByUser - Automatically restrict resultsets by user
=head1 SYNOPSYS
In your L<DBIx::Class::Schema> class:
__PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/Schema::RestrictByUser/);
In the L<DBIx::Class> table class for your users:
#let's pretend a user has_many notes, which are in ResultSet 'Notes'
sub restrict_Notes_resultset {
my $self = shift; #the User object
my $unrestricted_rs = shift;
#restrict the notes viewable to only those that belong to this user
#this will, in effect make the following 2 equivalent
# $user->notes $schema->resultset('Notes')
return $self->related_resultset('notes');
}
#it could also be written like this
sub restrict_Notes_resultset {
my $self = shift; #the User object
my $unrestricted_rs = shift;
return $unrestricted_rs->search_rs( { user_id => $self->id } );
}
Wherever you connect to your database
my $schema = MyApp::Schema->connect(...);
my $user = $schema->resultset('User')->find( { id => $user_id } );
$resticted_schema = $schema->restrict_by_user( $user, $optional_prefix);
=cut
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This L<DBIx::Class::Schema> component can be used to restrict all resultsets through
an appropriately-named method in a user's result_class. This can be done to
automatically prevent data from being accessed by a user, effectively enforcing
security by limiting any access to the data store.
=head1 PUBLIC METHODS
=head2 restrict_by_user $user_obj, $optional_prefix
Will restrict resultsets according to the methods available in $user_obj and
return a restricted copy of itself. ResultSets will be restricted if methods
in the form of C<restrict_${ResultSet_Name}_resultset> are found in $user_obj.
If the optional prefix is included it will attempt to use
C<restrict_${prefix}_${ResultSet_Name}_resultset>, if that does not exist, it
will try again without the prefix, and if that's not available the resultset
will not be restricted.
=cut
sub restrict_by_user {
my ($self, $user, $prefix) = @_;
my $copy = $self->clone;
$copy->make_restricted;
$copy->user($user);
$copy->restricted_prefix($prefix) if $prefix;
return $copy;
}
=head1 PRIVATE METHODS
=head2 make_restricted
Restrict the Schema class and ResultSources associated with this Schema
=cut
sub make_restricted {
my ($self) = @_;
my $class = ref($self);
my $r_class = $self->_get_restricted_schema_class($class);
bless($self, $r_class);
foreach my $moniker ($self->sources) {
my $source = $self->source($moniker);
my $class = ref($source);
my $r_class = $self->_get_restricted_source_class($class);
bless($source, $r_class);
}
}
=head2 _get_restricted_schema_class $target_schema
Return the class name for the restricted schema class;
=cut
sub _get_restricted_schema_class {
my ($self, $target) = @_;
return $self->_get_restricted_class(Schema => $target);
}
=head2 _get_restricted_source_class $target_source
Return the class name for the restricted ResultSource class;
=cut
sub _get_restricted_source_class {
my ($self, $target) = @_;
return $self->_get_restricted_class(Source => $target);
}
=head2 _get_restrictedclass $type, $target
Return an appropriate class name for a restricted class of type $type.
=cut
sub _get_restricted_class {
my ($self, $type, $target) = @_;
my $r_class = join('::', $target, '__RestrictedByUser');
unless (eval { $r_class->can('can') }) {
my $r_comp = join(
'::', 'DBIx::Class::Schema::RestrictByUser::RestrictComp', $type
);
$self->inject_base($r_class, $r_comp, $target);
}
return $r_class;
}
1;
__END__;
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<DBIx::Class>, L<DBIx::Class::Schema::RestrictByUser::RestrictComp::Schema>,
L<DBIx::Class::Schema::RestrictByUser::RestrictComp::Source>,
=head1 AUTHORS
Matt S Trout (mst) <mst@shadowcatsystems.co.uk>
With contributions from
Guillermo Roditi (groditi) <groditi@cpan.org>
=head1 LICENSE
You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself.
=cut