The Zend Acl docs show an example on using a custom assertion:
$acl->allow(null, null, null, new MyCustomAssertion());
The problem is that the above code is executed while creating the rules not while checking them. In my controller I can only do something like:
$acl->isAllowed('someUser', 'someResource')
Unlike Zend Rbac the assertion class is already instantiated and I cannot pass it a user ID and post ID to check if the user has access to that post in particular.
Is checking if a user has access to a post from a controller achievable (in a maintainable way) with Zend Acl?
Note 1: I'm not using the Zend framework for this, just the Zend Acl component. Note 2: The reason I'm not using Rbac is because I need the "deny" feature that Acl has and Rbac doesn't.
One way is to create your own implementation of a role and a resource:
class MyCustomAssertion implements Zend\Permissions\Acl\Assertion\AssertionInterface
{
public function assert(Zend\Permissions\Acl\Acl $acl,
Zend\Permissions\Acl\Role\RoleInterface $role = null,
Zend\Permissions\Acl\Resource\ResourceInterface $resource = null,
$privilege = null)
{
if(is_a($role, UserRole::class) && is_a($resource, PostResource::class)) {
$post_id = $resource->getResourceId();
$user_id = $role->getId();
// find out if the user has access to this post id(eg with a database query)
// return true or false.
return true;
}
return true;
}
}
class PostResource implements Zend\Permissions\Acl\Resource\ResourceInterface
{
private $post_id;
public function __construct($post_id)
{
$this->post_id = $post_id;
}
public function getId()
{
return$this->post_id;
}
public function getResourceId()
{
return 'post';
}
}
class UserRole implements Zend\Permissions\Acl\Role\RoleInterface
{
private $id;
public function __construct($id)
{
$this->id = $id;
}
public function getId()
{
return $this->id;
}
public function getRoleId()
{
return 'user';
}
}
use Zend\Permissions\Acl\Acl;
use Zend\Permissions\Acl\Role\GenericRole as Role;
use Zend\Permissions\Acl\Resource\GenericResource as Resource;
$acl = new Acl();
$acl->addRole(new Role('user'));
$acl->addResource(new Resource('post'));
$acl->allow(null, null, null, new MyCustomAssertion());
// lets check if user with id 11 has access to post with id 5.
$acl->isAllowed(new UserRole(11), new PostResource(5));
Yes, this way you can add this check in a controller using the last line above.