apicrud.grants

grants.py

Grants

An account’s usage limits are specified here in the grants table; the free-service tier is defined and passed in via load_defaults(). Records in grants table are owned by administrator-level user. If a record matches a user uid, the default grant name=value is overridden.

created 27-may-2019 by richb@instantlinux.net

Classes

AccessControl([policy_file, models, model])

Role-based access control

Grants(models[, db_session, ttl])

Account usage limits

timedelta

Difference between two datetime values.
class apicrud.grants.Grants(models, db_session=None, ttl=None)

Account usage limits

Parameters

  • models (obj) – the models file object

  • db_session (obj) – existing db session

  • ttl (int) – how long to cache a grant in memory

get(name, uid=None)

Get the cached value of a named grant, if it hasn’t expired Note that if any grant assigned to a uid expires before others, the earliest expiration applies to all the uid’s grants

Parameters

  • name (str) – name of a grant, as defined in config.py

  • uid (str) – user ID

Returns

granted limit

Return type

value

load_defaults(defaults)

Load default values from a dict of keyword: value pairs

Parameters

defaults (dict) – new defaults

uncache(uid)

Remove grants from cache, any time a user’s status changes

Parameters

uid (str) – user ID