alan2207 / strapi-plugin-sync-roles-permissions

Store user roles and permissions configuration as a JSON file and then import and reuse it any time.

strapi-plugin-sync-roles-permissions

Store user roles and permissions configuration as a JSON file and then import and reuse it any time.

Motivation

Sometimes our applications require lots of different types of users with a lot of different permissions. Strapi with it's strapi-plugin-users-permissions gives us a lot of functionalities out of the box, which is great. However, it would be nice to be able to store the roles and permissions configuration in order to be able to share it across multiple instances of the application. It is especially useful during development so we don't have to configure it every time we clear the db.

With this plugin we can export existing roles and permissions configuration as a JSON file at any point of time, and then whenever we need to update the application with the given configuration we can just upload the same JSON file and roles and permissions will be synced in the db.

Installation

1.

This plugin is built on top of the official strapi-plugin-users-permissions plugin, so make sure it is already enabled.

2.

Install with npm:

npm install --save strapi-plugin-sync-roles-permissions
npm run build

Install with yarn:

yarn add strapi-plugin-sync-roles-permissions
yarn build

4.

Start your strapi server.

Usage

1. If you have a new application, configure all your roles and permissions from roles section in settings of the admin panel.

2. Then you can export your roles and permissions into a JSON file and store it somewhere.

3. Then any time you want to populate your db with the exported roles and permissions configuration, you can do that by importing the JSON file and update roles and permissions.

4. The same proccess can be repeated any time you want to save your current roles and permissions configuration. Your roles configuration in the db will be overriden with the one from the JSON file.

LICENSE

MIT

strapi-plugin-sync-roles-permissions's Issues

does it work for strapi v4?

Not exactly an issue, just wanted to know if it was tested in the new strapi release? Thanks

Use this programatically

Hi,

I just wrote something similar to this, but to be used on server first run. I haven't check the json structure, sure it's different because I made up mine to my (simple) needs.

Anyhow, I guess I'd be able to call the updateRoles using something like:

strapi.query('sync-roles-permissions').update(myJsonObject);

but would be great to have a working example in the readme together with a json structure example :)

Thanks for the plugin, great work!

Get a 401 Unauthorized response for /sync-roles-permissions/roles

When I click on the Export Roles And Permissions button I get a 401 Unauthorized response. The UI then logs me out and prompts me for the Ui.

How to reproduce the error:

I have strapi running in a docker setup.

1. Install strapi using docker according to oficial documentation:
   https://strapi.io/documentation/developer-docs/latest/setup-deployment-guides/installation/docker.html
2. When the app is built, visit localhost:1337/admin, create an admin user, create a simple content-type (say article) and give the Authenticated Role some permissions on that new content-type.
3. Using docker desktop, open a CLI terminal
   
4. Install the plugin and rebuild using the plug-in instructions:
   https://github.com/alan2207/strapi-plugin-sync-roles-permissions#installation
5. When it's done, restart the docker app.
6. Login with as the admin user and try to export using the Export Roles and Permissions button.

UPDATE: I just noticed that, after installing the plugin using npm (as per instructions) there are only 2 files modified in my project: package.json and package-lock.json. I see no additional folders/files in the ./app/api folder. So I suppose the 401 Unauthorized error is due to the fact that the required API is not properly setup. Am I wrong?