Summary:
This gives a mechanism for controlling access control within a document that is distinct from (though implemented with the same machinery as) granular access rules.
It was hard to find a good way to insert this that didn't dissolve in a soup of complications, so here's what I went with:
* When reading rules, if there are shares, extra rules are added.
* If there are shares, all rules are made conditional on a "ShareRef" user property.
* "ShareRef" is null when a doc is accessed in normal way, and the row id of a share when accessed via a share.
There's no UI for controlling shares (George is working on it for forms), but you can do it by editing a `_grist_Shares` table in a document. Suppose you make a fresh document with a single page/table/widget, then to create an empty share you can do:
```
gristDocPageModel.gristDoc.get().docData.sendAction(['AddRecord', '_grist_Shares', null, {linkId: 'xyz', options: '{"publish": true}'}])
```
If you look at the home db now there should be something in the `shares` table:
```
$ sqlite3 -table landing.db "select * from shares"
+----+------------------------+------------------------+--------------+---------+
| id | key | doc_id | link_id | options |
+----+------------------------+------------------------+--------------+---------+
| 1 | gSL4g38PsyautLHnjmXh2K | 4qYuace1xP2CTcPunFdtan | xyz | ... |
+----+------------------------+------------------------+--------------+---------+
```
If you take the key from that (gSL4g38PsyautLHnjmXh2K in this case) and replace the document's urlId in its URL with `s.<key>` (in this case `s.gSL4g38PsyautLHnjmXh2K` then you can use the regular document landing page (it will be quite blank initially) or API endpoint via the share.
E.g. for me `http://localhost:8080/o/docs/s0gSL4g38PsyautLHnjmXh2K/share-inter-3` accesses the doc.
To actually share some material - useful commands:
```
gristDocPageModel.gristDoc.get().docData.getMetaTable('_grist_Views_section').getRecords()
gristDocPageModel.gristDoc.get().docData.sendAction(['UpdateRecord', '_grist_Views_section', 1, {shareOptions: '{"publish": true, "form": true}'}])
gristDocPageModel.gristDoc.get().docData.getMetaTable('_grist_Pages').getRecords()
gristDocPageModel.gristDoc.get().docData.sendAction(['UpdateRecord', '_grist_Pages', 1, {shareRef: 1}])
```
For a share to be effective, at least one page needs to have its shareRef set to the rowId of the share, and at least one widget on one of those pages needs to have its shareOptions set to {"publish": "true", "form": "true"} (meaning turn on sharing, and include form sharing), and the share itself needs {"publish": true} on its options.
I think special shares are kind of incompatible with public sharing, since by their nature (allowing access to all endpoints) they easily expose the docId, and changing that would be hard.
Test Plan: tests added
Reviewers: dsagal, georgegevoian
Reviewed By: dsagal, georgegevoian
Subscribers: jarek, dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4144
When an ACL formula fails to be run, a warning is printed. However, it is painful to know which formula is concerned by the warning.
ACL: if RHS is null, return false for "in" and "not in"
Summary:
Attachments are a special case for granular access control. A user is now allowed to read a given attachment if they have read access to a cell containing its id. So when a user writes to a cell in an attachment column, it is important that they can only write the ids of cells to which they have access. This diff allows a user to add an attachment id in a cell if:
* The user already has access to that a attachment via some existing cell, or
* The user recently updated the attachment, or
* The attachment change is from an undo/redo of a previous action attributed to that user
Test Plan: Updated tests
Reviewers: georgegevoian, dsagal
Reviewed By: georgegevoian, dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3681
Summary:
First iteration for comments system for Grist.
- Comments are stored in a generic metatable `_grist_Cells`
- Each comment is connected to a particular cell (hence the generic name of the table)
- Access level works naturally for records stored in this table
-- User can add/read comments for cells he can see
-- User can't update/remove comments that he doesn't own, but he can delete them by removing cells (rows/columns)
-- Anonymous users can't see comments at all.
- Each comment can have replies (but replies can't have more replies)
Comments are hidden by default, they can be enabled by COMMENTS=true env variable.
Some things for follow-up
- Avatars, currently the user's profile image is not shown or retrieved from the server
- Virtual rendering for comments list in creator panel. Currently, there is a limit of 200 comments.
Test Plan: New and existing tests
Reviewers: georgegevoian, paulfitz
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Subscribers: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3509
Summary:
- Upgrades to build-related packages:
- Upgrade typescript, related libraries and typings.
- Upgrade webpack, eslint; add tsc-watch, node-dev, eslint_d.
- Build organization changes:
- Build webpack from original typescript, transpiling only; with errors still
reported by a background tsc watching process.
- Typescript-related changes:
- Reduce imports of AWS dependencies (very noticeable speedup)
- Avoid auto-loading global @types
- Client code is now built with isolatedModules flag (for safe transpilation)
- Use allowJs to avoid copying JS files manually.
- Linting changes
- Enhance Arcanist ESLintLinter to run before/after commands, and set up to use eslint_d
- Update eslint config, and include .eslintignore to avoid linting generated files.
- Include a bunch of eslint-prompted and eslint-generated fixes
- Add no-unused-expression rule to eslint, and fix a few warnings about it
- Other items:
- Refactor cssInput to avoid circular dependency
- Remove a bit of unused code, libraries, dependencies
Test Plan: No behavior changes, all existing tests pass. There are 30 tests fewer reported because `test_gpath.py` was removed (it's been unused for years)
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Subscribers: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3498
Summary:
Add more method overrides to MetaTableData for extra type safety.
Use MetaTableData, MetaRowRecord, and getMetaTable in more places.
Test Plan: Mostly it just has to compile. Tested manually that types are being checked more strictly now, e.g. by adding a typo to property names. Some type casting has also been removed.
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Subscribers: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3168
Summary:
The 'user' variable has a similar API to the one from access rules: it
contains properties about a user, such as their full name and email
address, as well as optional, user-defined attributes that are populated
via user attribute tables.
Test Plan: Python unit tests.
Reviewers: alexmojaki, paulfitz, dsagal
Reviewed By: alexmojaki, dsagal
Subscribers: paulfitz, dsagal, alexmojaki
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2898
Summary:
We used tslint earlier, and on switching to eslint, some rules were not
transfered. This moves more rules over, for consistent conventions or helpful
warnings.
- Name private members with a leading underscore.
- Prefer interface over a type alias.
- Use consistent spacing around ':' in type annotations.
- Use consistent spacing around braces of code blocks.
- Use semicolons consistently at the ends of statements.
- Use braces around even one-liner blocks, like conditionals and loops.
- Warn about shadowed variables.
Test Plan: Fixed all new warnings. Should be no behavior changes in code.
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2831
Summary:
Auto-complete helps enter correct column names, and when incorrect ones are
entered, we now show an error and prevent saving the rules.
In an unrelated tweak, fix focusing of ACLFormula when clicking into scroll area.
Test Plan: Added a test case for showing invalid columns
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2815
Summary:
This particular combination of features is not built out - data will be
censored but changes to data will not. So the user will now get an error
if they try to do it. Existing rules of this kind will continue to
operate as before, and can be set via the api.
Test Plan: added test
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2751
Summary:
- Support schema changes in the presence of non-trivial ACL rules.
- Fix update of `aclFormulaParsed` when updating formulas automatically after schema change.
- Filter private metadata in broadcasts, not just fetches. Censorship method is unchanged, just refactored.
- Allow only owners to change ACL rules.
- Force reloads if rules are changed.
- Track rule changes within bundle, for clarity during schema changes - tableId and colId changes create a muddle otherwise.
- Show or forbid pages dynamically depending on user's access to its sections. Logic unchanged, just no longer requires reload.
- Fix calculation of pre-existing rows touched by a bundle, in the presence of schema changes.
- Gray out acl page for non-owners.
Test Plan: added tests
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2734
Summary:
With this change, if a comment is added to an ACL formula, then that comment will be offered to the user if access is denied and that rule could potentially have granted access.
The code is factored so that when access is permitted, or when partially visible tables are being filtered, there is little overhead. Comments are gathered only when an explicit denial of access.
Test Plan: added tests, updated tests
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2730
Summary:
This adds any parameters in a document url whose key ends in '_'
into a `user.Link` object available in access control formulas
and in setting up characteristic tables.
This allows, for example, sending links to a document that contain
a hard-to-guess token, and having that link grant access to a
controlled part of the document (invoices for a specific customer
for example).
A `user.Origin` field is also added, set during rest api calls,
but is only tested manually at this point. It could be elaborated
for embedding use-cases.
Test Plan: added test
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2680
Summary:
- Factored out ACLRuleCollection into its own file, and use for building UI.
- Moved AccessRules out of UserManager to a page linked from left panel.
- Changed default RulePart to be the last part of a rule for simpler code.
- Implemented much of the UI for adding/deleting rules.
- For now, editing the ACLFormula and Permissions is done using text inputs.
- Implemented saving rules by syncing a bundle of them.
- Fixed DocData to clean up action bundle in case of an early error.
Test Plan: WIP planning to add some new browser tests for the UI
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2678
Summary:
- Added fields to _grist_ACLRules for the new Granular ACL representation
- Include a corresponding migration.
- Added ACLPermissions module with merging PermissionSets and converting to/from string.
- Implemented parsing of ACL formulas and compiling them into JS functions.
- Add automatic parsing of ACL formulas when ACLRules are added or updated.
- Convert GranularAccess to load and interpret new-style rules.
- Convert ACL UI to load and save new-style rules.
For now, no attempt to do anything better on the server or UI side, only to
reproduce previous behavior.
Test Plan: Added unittests for new files; fixed those for existing files.
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2664
Summary: Adds a granular access clause for columns. Permissions can be specified for a set of columns within a table. Permissions accumulate over clauses, in a way that is intended as a placeholder pending final design.
Test Plan: Added tests. Tested manually that updates to private columns are not sent to people who don't have access to them. There are a lot of extra tests needed and TODOs to be paid down after this experimental phase.
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2651
Summary:
This is a prototype for expanding the conditions that can be used in granular ACLs.
When processing ACLs, the following variables (called "characteristics") are now available in conditions:
* UserID
* Email
* Name
* Access (owners, editors, viewers)
The set of variables can be expanded by adding a "characteristic" clause. This is a clause which specifies:
* A tableId
* The name of an existing characteristic
* A colId
The effect of the clause is to expand the available characteristics with all the columns in the table, with values taken from the record where there is a match between the specified characteristic and the specified column.
Existing clauses are generalized somewhat to demonstrate and test the use these variables. That isn't the main point of this diff though, and I propose to leave generalizing+systematizing those clauses for a future diff.
Issues I'm not dealing with here:
* How clauses combine. (The scope on GranularAccessRowClause is a hack to save me worrying about that yet).
* The full set of matching methods we'll allow.
* Refreshing row access in clients when the tables mentioned in characteristic tables change.
* Full CRUD permission control.
* Default rules (part of combination).
* Reporting errors in access rules.
That said, with this diff it is possible to e.g. assign a City to editors by their email address or name, and have only rows for those Cities be visible in their client. Ability to modify those rows, and remain updates about them, remains under incomplete control.
Test Plan: added tests
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2642
Summary:
This implements a form of row-level access control where for a
given table, you may specify that only owners have access to
rows for which a given column has falsy values.
For simplicity:
* Only owners may edit that table.
* Non-owners with the document open will have forced
reloads whenever the table is modified.
Baby steps...
Test Plan: added tests
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2633
