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Karthikeyan Chinnakonda 92026b769f [Preview] Inherited roles for postgres read queries
fixes #3868

docker image - `hasura/graphql-engine:inherited-roles-preview-48b73a2de`

Note:

To be able to use the inherited roles feature, the graphql-engine should be started with the env variable `HASURA_GRAPHQL_EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURES` set to `inherited_roles`.

Introduction
------------

This PR implements the idea of multiple roles as presented in this [paper](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/FGALanguageICDE07.pdf). The multiple roles feature in this PR can be used via inherited roles. An inherited role is a role which can be created by combining multiple singular roles. For example, if there are two roles `author` and `editor` configured in the graphql-engine, then we can create a inherited role with the name of `combined_author_editor` role which will combine the select permissions of the `author` and `editor` roles and then make GraphQL queries using the `combined_author_editor`.

How are select permissions of different roles are combined?
------------------------------------------------------------

A select permission includes 5 things:

1. Columns accessible to the role
2. Row selection filter
3. Limit
4. Allow aggregation
5. Scalar computed fields accessible to the role

 Suppose there are two roles, `role1` gives access to the `address` column with row filter `P1` and `role2` gives access to both the `address` and the `phone` column with row filter `P2` and we create a new role `combined_roles` which combines `role1` and `role2`.

Let's say the following GraphQL query is queried with the `combined_roles` role.

```graphql
query {
   employees {
     address
     phone
   }
}
```

This will translate to the following SQL query:

```sql

 select
    (case when (P1 or P2) then address else null end) as address,
    (case when P2 then phone else null end) as phone
 from employee
 where (P1 or P2)
```

The other parameters of the select permission will be combined in the following manner:

1. Limit - Minimum of the limits will be the limit of the inherited role
2. Allow aggregations - If any of the role allows aggregation, then the inherited role will allow aggregation
3. Scalar computed fields - same as table column fields, as in the above example

APIs for inherited roles:
----------------------

1. `add_inherited_role`

`add_inherited_role` is the [metadata API](https://hasura.io/docs/1.0/graphql/core/api-reference/index.html#schema-metadata-api) to create a new inherited role. It accepts two arguments

`role_name`: the name of the inherited role to be added (String)
`role_set`: list of roles that need to be combined (Array of Strings)

Example:

```json
{
  "type": "add_inherited_role",
  "args": {
      "role_name":"combined_user",
      "role_set":[
          "user",
          "user1"
      ]
  }
}
```

After adding the inherited role, the inherited role can be used like single roles like earlier

Note:

An inherited role can only be created with non-inherited/singular roles.

2. `drop_inherited_role`

The `drop_inherited_role` API accepts the name of the inherited role and drops it from the metadata. It accepts a single argument:

`role_name`: name of the inherited role to be dropped

Example:

```json

{
  "type": "drop_inherited_role",
  "args": {
      "role_name":"combined_user"
  }
}
```

Metadata
---------

The derived roles metadata will be included under the `experimental_features` key while exporting the metadata.

```json
{
  "experimental_features": {
    "derived_roles": [
      {
        "role_name": "manager_is_employee_too",
        "role_set": [
          "employee",
          "manager"
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}
```

Scope
------

Only postgres queries and subscriptions are supported in this PR.

Important points:
-----------------

1. All columns exposed to an inherited role will be marked as `nullable`, this is done so that cell value nullification can be done.

TODOs
-------

- [ ] Tests
   - [ ] Test a GraphQL query running with a inherited role without enabling inherited roles in experimental features
   - [] Tests for aggregate queries, limit, computed fields, functions, subscriptions (?)
   - [ ] Introspection test with a inherited role (nullability changes in a inherited role)
- [ ] Docs
- [ ] Changelog

Co-authored-by: Vamshi Surabhi <6562944+0x777@users.noreply.github.com>
GitOrigin-RevId: 3b8ee1e11f5ceca80fe294f8c074d42fbccfec63
2021-03-08 11:15:10 +00:00
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pgbouncer run graphql tests on both http and websocket; add parallelism (close #1868) (#1921) 2019-04-08 12:52:38 +05:30
postgres-12.0-alpine-postgis3 build: rename file to adhere to windows rules (close #4002) (#4003) 2020-03-03 12:33:21 +05:30
postgres-13.0-alpine-postgis3 server: hasura on PG v13 (#125) 2020-12-01 12:22:42 +00:00
server-upgrade-downgrade ci: fix oss test server upgrade ci test when upgrading from 1.3.3 2021-01-28 11:40:24 +00:00
.gitignore run graphql tests on both http and websocket; add parallelism (close #1868) (#1921) 2019-04-08 12:52:38 +05:30
build-docker-image.sh circleci integration (#74) 2018-07-10 10:01:02 +00:00
ciignore.sh server: split server test suite to run in parallel on circleci (#309) 2021-01-25 08:24:13 +00:00
cli-builder.dockerfile server: add MSSQL support 2021-02-23 17:38:36 +00:00
cli-migrations-builder.dockerfile ci: add tests for cli-migrations image (#4396) 2020-04-15 07:26:00 +05:30
config.yml ci: update cli and console builder images 2021-02-24 07:42:42 +00:00
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deployer.dockerfile ci: use hub instead of ghr for releases (#4241) 2020-04-02 07:12:18 +05:30
extension-cli-builder.dockerfile cli: bug fixes related to actions (#3951) 2020-02-25 20:28:28 +05:30
README.md server: split server test suite to run in parallel on circleci (#309) 2021-01-25 08:24:13 +00:00
release_notes.template.md remove manifests directory from init (close #254) (#258) 2018-08-06 17:03:17 +05:30
server-builder.dockerfile server: hasura on PG v13 (#125) 2020-12-01 12:22:42 +00:00
server-test-names.txt [Preview] Inherited roles for postgres read queries 2021-03-08 11:15:10 +00:00
test-cli-with-last-release.sh cli: add client package, statestore implementations, deprecate config v1 2021-02-17 04:21:11 +00:00
test-cli.sh cli: add client package, statestore implementations, deprecate config v1 2021-02-17 04:21:11 +00:00
test-console.sh console and cli: run console in CLI mode for tests, misc CLI fixes (#368) 2021-01-20 20:18:44 +00:00
test-deprecated-server-flags.sh Implemented graceful shutdown for HTTP requests (close #2698) (#2717) 2019-08-26 00:31:27 -05:00
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test-server.sh [Preview] Inherited roles for postgres read queries 2021-03-08 11:15:10 +00:00

TODO(swann): write this out better

Any tests in test-server.sh should also have their names added to server-test-names.txt, otherwise the CI pipelines will not run them.