Possible to register a Laravel policy without a model?

Question

I'm working on a Laravel project that leverages policies for authorization, and this works well when I'm authorizing an entity that has a corresponding model. However, not every entity I want to authorize has a corresponding model.

Is there a way to register a policy without a model (or is that fundamentally incorrect?), or should I take a different approach?

Answer 1

You can with Gates, not with Policies.

• Policies are classes that organize authorization logic around a particular model or resource.
• Gates are useful to manage authorizations for business logic that don't involve a particular model or resource.

Here is Laravel documentation about Gates:

• https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/authorization#gates