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by samjs 800 days ago
That's a really clean implementation. And the shares are used to resolve authorization here [1], right?

Two things that we're solving for at Oso is: making it easier for multiple teams to collaborate on permissions (which we solve by having a declarative language), and solving the list filtering problem (as talked about in the post).

If you don't need either of those two things and are happy with a DIY approach, what you've shared would work great IMO. If you packaged that up as a standalone solution, I could see a lot of people getting value from it!

There are not enough people sharing authz implementations out there, a blog post on this shares approach would be super cool.

[1] https://github.com/bottledcode/durable-php/blob/3ad509fcdbb3...

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> And the shares are used to resolve authorization here [1], right?

That's correct!

> making it easier for multiple teams to collaborate on permissions (which we solve by having a declarative language), and solving the list filtering problem (as talked about in the post).

Those are pretty hard problems, so it's really cool to see someone solving it in a reusable way! For me, authz is always a chore ... making it something easy to specify in a way that "just works" is worth quite a bit in my mind!

> If you packaged that up as a standalone solution, I could see a lot of people getting value from it!

I don't really have much desire to get into maintaining an auth library; there's just not enough time in the day!

> a blog post on this shares approach would be super cool.

It's pending publish, actually! I've got a devlog (more like a book at this point) for something I've been working on for years now, but no posts are going to be published until I hit a milestone. I'm almost there... not much further.

> I don't really have much desire to get into maintaining an auth library; there's just not enough time in the day!

Haha, well in some ways I'm glad to hear that. That's why we exist :)

> It's pending publish, actually! I've got a devlog (more like a book at this point) for something I've been working on for years now, but no posts are going to be published until I hit a milestone. I'm almost there... not much further.

Send it over if you want another pair of eyes, and lmk when publishing so we can share with our community too. I'm sam [at] osohq.com