handling route permissions in mojolicious

Question

I'm working with different types of users(admin, regular, guest) and would like to give each type of user permission to access different routes in a mojolicious app. My thought is to build a permission table for each user type to be able to access different routes (either by path or more likely by action name).

I was thinking of handling this on a more global level with a around_dispatch hook and query a database for a lookup on which actions (subroutines) can be accessed for which user type.

This would look a bit like:

$self->hook( around_dispatch => sub ($next,$c) {

    if (logged in user has permissions) {
        $next->();
    } else {
       $c->redirect_to('/permission_error');
    } 
});

where I'm looking to determine the action that is called for a given route. Is there a way to drill down in a Mojolicious::Controller object within this hook to do this?

Answer 1

The following pulls all of the information I need:

$self->hook(
        around_action => sub {
            my ($next, $c, $action, $last) = @_;
            if (has_permssion($c->current_user,$c->{stash}->{action})) {
                return $next->();
            } else {
                $c->redirect_to('/permission_error');
            }
        }
    );

where I am using the Mojolicious::Plugin::Authentication to handle authentication and users and the has_permission subroutine checks if the supplied user has permission to access the requested route/action.