ocbesbn-bouncer

BOUNCER

Midldleware for individual nodejs services, takes care of following items

1. Get permission details from ACL services
2. validate the incoming calls
3. supply the acl.json data

Default options

var defaultOptions =
{
    host: 'consul',
    serviceName: '',
    acl: require('./acl.json')
}

Internal dependencies

• ocbesbn-web-init

Bouncer should be added as a middleware to the ocbesbn-web-init.

Example

import acl json via file

var bouncer = require('ocbesbn-bouncer');
{
  ...
  middlewares: [bouncer({
    host: 'consul',
    serviceName: 'user', //says user service
    acl: require('mypath/acl.json'),
    aclServiceName: 'acl'
  }).Middleware]
  ...
}

import acl json directly

var bouncer = require('ocbesbn-bouncer');
{
  ...
  middlewares: [bouncer({
    host: 'consul',
    serviceName: 'user', //example
    acl: {
      "Health": {
        "translations": {
          "name" : {
            "en": "Health check",
            "de": ""
          },
          "description": {
            "en": "Health check endpoint used by service checks",
            "de": ""
          }
        },
        "resources": [
          {
            "type": "rest",
            "resourceId": "/api/health/check",
            "actions": ["edit", "read"]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    aclServiceName: 'acl'
  }).Middleware]
  ...
  }