Getting Target Sail Request from a Policy Scope

Question

I am currently trying to set up a simple authorization system (pre-existing authentication) for sails (v0.10) based on an application on policy system boards. For this, I would need to get the controller and the action of the current request goals from my policy.

I would do something like this in politics:

 module.exports = function (req, res, next) {
     // Get target controller and action
     var target = req.target; // How to do this?
     var action = req.action; // and this?

     // Lookup in database, let through if matches or render error
     User.findOne...
  };

I remember that the target information was embedded in the request object at some point, but was not found there now (commit 5d98ec8 ).

I know about the ability to parse req.route and get the necessary information by simulating a sail router, but I would prefer to avoid duplicating the routing logic for the sole purpose of the policy.

Edit:

:

var controller = req.options.controller || req.options.model;

req.options:

{ detectedVerb: { verb: '', original: '/user/:id?', path: '/user/:id?' },
  associations: 
    [ { alias: 'auth', type: 'model', model: 'key' },
      { alias: 'group', type: 'model', model: 'group' },
      { alias: 'role', type: 'model', model: 'role' } ],
  actions: true,
  rest: true,
  shortcuts: true,
  prefix: '',
  pluralize: false,
  index: true,
  model: 'user' }

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• : https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/issues/1372
• Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sailsjs/faX54hqcNZE

Answer 1

Github , / , , sails.hooks.blueprints.

:

var action = Utility.getRequestAction(req);

:

/**
 * api/services/Utitlity.js
 *
 * @module        Service
 * @name          Utility
 * @memberOf      global
 * @description   Utilities for various common tiny tasks
 * @docs          http://sailsjs.org/#!documentation/services
 * @api           public
 **/

/**
 * Module dependencies
 */
  var util = require('util'),
      _ = require('lodash');

module.exports = {

  getRequestAction: function (req) {
    if (req.options.action) return req.options.action;

    var controller = req.options.controller || req.options.model;

    var baseRoute = sails.config.blueprints.prefix + controller;
    var requestRoute = req.route.method + ' ' + req.route.path;

    var Model = sails.models[controller];

    if (req.options.shortcuts && Model) {
      var shortcutRoutes = {
        '/%s/find/:id?': 'find',
        '/%s/create': 'create',
        '/%s/update/:id?': 'update',
        '/%s/destroy/:id?': 'destroy'
      };

      var shortcutAction = _.findWhere(shortcutRoutes, function(blueprint, pattern){
        var shortcutRoute = util.format(pattern, baseRoute);
        return req.route.path === shortcutRoute;
      });

      if (shortcutAction) return shortcutAction;
    }

    if (req.options.rest && Model) {
      var restRoutes = {
        'get /%s/:id?': 'find',
        'post /%s': 'create',
        'put /%s/:id?': 'update',
        'delete /%s/:id?': 'destroy'
      };

      var restAction =_.findWhere(restRoutes, function(blueprint, pattern){
        var restRoute = util.format(pattern, baseRoute);
        return requestRoute === restRoute;
      });

      if (restAction) return restAction;

      var associationActions = _.compact(_.map(req.options.associations, function(association){
        var alias = association.alias;

        var associationRoutes = {
          'get /%s/:parentid/%s/:id?': 'populate',
          'post /%s/:parentid/%s': 'add',
          'delete /%s/:parentid/%s': 'remove'
        };

        return _.findWhere(associationRoutes, function(blueprint, pattern){
          var associationRoute = util.format(pattern, baseRoute, alias);
          return requestRoute === associationRoute;
        });
      }));

      if (associationActions.length > 0) return associationActions[0];
    }
  }
};