coldbox-security-rbac

To implement role-based access control in a ColdBox application, you define database schemas for roles and permissions, use pivot tables for assignments, and enforce checks in handlers and routes using CBSecurity rules.

Hierarchical role inheritance resolves effective permissions by allowing higher-level roles to pass down their permissions to lower-level roles. The UserService evaluates assigned user roles and aggregates permissions hierarchically during access checks.

The best way to structure an RBAC database schema for permissions is to create dedicated tables for roles and permissions, alongside pivot tables like role_permissions and user_roles to manage many-to-many relationships and effective permission resolution.

Yes, you can use CBSecurity rules to protect ColdBox routes and handlers with role checks. The framework integrates role-based access control directly into module routing configurations and handler-level pre-checks for sensitive actions.

Yes, you need dependency injection to manage user roles and permissions in ColdBox. The framework relies on injected RoleService and UserService components to handle role creation, user assignments, and effective permission resolution.

A limitation of replacing ad-hoc permission checks with a full RBAC model is the initial setup overhead, requiring predefined database schemas for roles, permissions, and pivot tables before you can enforce access control rules consistently.