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Anonymous/Public Access

Many times, you might want to expose/restrict certain operations on a resource publicly, i.e. grant/deny access irrespective of whether the user is logged in or not.

Space Cloud allows you to do this in a very easy manner by using the allow and deny rules.

Grant access to anonymous userslink

The allow rule is used to disable access control entirely for a particular operation on a resource. The request is allowed to be made even if the JWT token is absent in the request. This rule is used only when you want to expose a resource publicly.

Example: Allow anonymous users to view articles of your blog by providing the following rule for the read operation of the articles table:

{
  "rule": "allow"
}

You shouldn’t use allow for mutations like update or delete. Otherwise, any anonymous user might update or delete your entire table.

Deny access completelylink

The deny rule is used to restrict access to a particular operation on a resource. The request is denied irrespective of whether the JWT token is present in the request or not.

Example: Restrict anyone from deleting the purchase history by providing the following rule for the delete operation of the purchases table:

{
  "rule": "deny"
}

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