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Authorization logic gets messy fast.
The Ash Framework book warns:
“It’s possible to encode complicated logic, but it’s also pretty easy to make a mess.”
That’s catnip for me.
Why is it so easy to make a mess in authorization code? Are better patterns possible? Or is the problem itself just messy?
As someone who leans functional, I tend to see authorization as a problem of combining predicates, which is a job for the monoid.
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