rich-text upload-element: impossible to restrict access to media collection

unonweb

8 months ago

1 2

• Selected Answer
  

  unonweb

  8 months ago

  Alright, in the meantin I've realized that I'm NOT supposed to separate user data on a collection level but on a doc level.
  This is because you can only return query constraints (by access functions) on a doc level.

  For the sake of completeness I document here what I did wrong:

  I had a 'pages, 'media', etc collection for every user.
  Within the collections I hard coded the access restrictions.

  // my access function
  function allowSpecificUsers({ req }, allowedUsers = []) {
  	try {
  		//...
  		if (allowedUsers.includes(req?.user?.name)) {
  			return true
  		} else {
  			console.log(`[access] requesting collection "${req?.collection?.config?.slug}" user NOT allowed: "${req?.user?.name}"`)
  			return false
  		}
  	} catch (err) {
  		console.error(err)
  	}
  }
  // withing the collection (Donald Duck's collection)
  access: {
  		read: ({ req }) => allowSpecificUsers({ req }, 'Donald Duck')
  	},
  }

  This kind of setup worked fine until I encountered the error that I described above.

• 

  unonweb

  8 months ago

  The full error thrown is:

  [08:21:02] ERROR (payload): Forbidden: You are not allowed to perform this action.
      at new ExtendableError (/home/frida/code/web/payloadcms/unonweb/node_modules/payload/dist/errors/APIError.js:22:15)
      at new APIError (/home/frida/code/web/payloadcms/unonweb/node_modules/payload/dist/errors/APIError.js:38:9)
      at new Forbidden (/home/frida/code/web/payloadcms/unonweb/node_modules/payload/dist/errors/Forbidden.js:10:9)
      at executeAccess (/home/frida/code/web/payloadcms/unonweb/node_modules/payload/dist/auth/executeAccess.js:9:23)
      at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
      at async find (/home/frida/code/web/payloadcms/unonweb/node_modules/payload/dist/collections/operations/find.js:53:24)
      at async findHandler (/home/frida/code/web/payloadcms/unonweb/node_modules/payload/dist/collections/requestHandlers/find.js:19:24
  

  In my opinion there should be no error, so we can have a multi-user setup with multiple media collections which are only accessible by the current user.

  Alternatively there could be a property like relation-to for the rich-text field so we can specify which media collections to browse.