Cybus::Role

Creates a new role resource. See also user and role management.

The role defined here can be used in the list of roles for a Cybus::User resource, which is the suggested way of specifying a set of permissions for a user.

Properties

Property	Type	Required
permissions	object[]	Required

permissions

The permissions associated to this role

• is required

• type: object[]; all items must be of the type: object with following properties:

Property	Type	Required
context	string	Required
operation	string	Required
resource	string	Required

context

The context in which the role permissions for the resource should be interpreted.

• is required

• type: enum; the value of this property must be equal to one of the below:

  • mqtt when describing permissions for MQTT topics

  • http when describing permissions for REST API paths

operation

The allowed access operation to the resource.

• is required

• type: enum; the value of this property must be equal to one of the below:

  • read

  • write

  • readWrite

resource

Resource path. Can be REST-ful API path or MQTT topic.

• is required

• type: string

Example

myRole:
  type: Cybus::Role
  properties:
    permissions:
      - resource: edge.cybus/#
        operation: readWrite
        context: mqtt