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Created February 19, 2015 18:33
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LoopBack ACL with $owner
{
"name": "Book",
"base": "PersistedModel",
"idInjection": true,
"properties": {
"title": {
"type": "string",
"required": true
},
"value": {
"type": [
"object"
],
"required": true
}
},
"validations": [],
"relations": {
"member": {
"type": "belongsTo",
"model": "Member",
"foreignKey": "memberId"
}
},
"acls": [
{
"accessType": "*",
"principalType": "ROLE",
"principalId": "$owner",
"permission": "ALLOW"
}
],
"methods": []
}
{
"name": "Member",
"base": "User",
"idInjection": true,
"properties": {},
"validations": [],
"relations": {
"books": {
"type": "hasMany",
"model": "Book",
"foreignKey": "memberId"
}
},
"acls": [],
"methods": []
}
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So a Member has many Books. With this setup I can GET /books for ALL users with an access token for User-1 even though User-1 is only an "owner" of a few books with the relationship setup through "memberId". Unless I am understanding how ACLs and Relationships wrong.

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GET /members/ID/books also throws a 401 even with a legit access token with or without ALCs set. However, GET /books works fine.

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I thought that when posting with an access token that would get translated and automatically used on all the CRUD methods.

So if I had a access token XXX that was for Member with ID: 5 then...

POST /books -H 'Authorization: XXX' -d '{ "title": "Book Title" } would create a book that looks like { "id": 1, "memberId": 5, "title": "Book Title" }

Then if I were to perform GET /books -H 'Authorization: XXX' I would get ONLY the books with "memberId": 5 since they were the owner of the object and created it initially with their own access token.

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