Managing Relationships Between Objects

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In this guide you will learn how to give a user access to a particular object through a relationship with another object.

When to use

Giving user access through a relationship with another object is helpful because it allows scaling as the number of object grows. For example:

• organization that owns many repos
• team that administers many documents

Before you start

In order to understand this guide correctly you must be familiar with some Auth0 FGA Concepts and know how to develop the things that we will list below.

Assume that you have the followingauthorization model

• a repo type that can have a admin relation

DSL

type repo
  relations
    define admin as self

JSON

{
  "type_definitions": [
    {
      "type": "repo",
      "relations": {
        "admin": {
          "this": {}
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

---

In addition, you will need to know the following:

Modeling Basics

You need to know how to create an authorization model and create a relationship tuple to grant a user access to an object. Learn more →

Auth0 FGA Concepts

• A Type: a class of objects that have similar characteristics
• A User: an entity in the system that can be related to an object
• A Relation: is a string defined in the type definition of an authorization model that defines the possibility of a relationship between objects of this type and other users in the system
• An Object: represents an entity in the system. Users' relationships to it can be define through relationship tuples and the authorization model
• A Relationship Tuple: a grouping consisting of a user, a relation and an object stored in Auth0 FGA

Step by Step

For the current model, a user can be related as an admin to an object of type repo. If we wanted to have Anne be related to two repos, repo:1 and repo:2, we would have to add two relationship tuples, like so:

Node.js

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
// import the SDK
const { Auth0FgaApi } = require('@auth0/fga');

// Initialize the SDK
const fgaClient = new Auth0FgaApi({
  environment: process.env.FGA_ENVIRONMENT,
  storeId: process.env.FGA_STORE_ID,
  clientId: process.env.FGA_CLIENT_ID,
  clientSecret: process.env.FGA_CLIENT_SECRET,
});

await fgaClient.write({
  writes: {
    tuple_keys: [
      { user: 'anne', relation: 'admin', object: 'repo:1'},
      { user: 'anne', relation: 'admin', object: 'repo:2'}
    ]
  }
});

Go

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
import (
    fgaSdk "github.com/auth0-lab/fga-go-sdk"
    "os"
)

func Main() {
    configuration, err := fgaSdk.NewConfiguration(fgaSdk.UserConfiguration{
        Environment:  os.Getenv("FGA_ENVIRONMENT"),
        StoreId:      os.Getenv("FGA_STORE_ID"),
        ClientId:     os.Getenv("FGA_CLIENT_ID"),
        ClientSecret: os.Getenv("FGA_CLIENT_SECRET"),
    })

    if err != nil {
    // .. Handle error
    }

    fgaClient := fgaSdk.NewAPIClient(configuration)
}

body := fgaSdk.WriteRequestParams{
	Writes:  &fgaSdk.TupleKeys{
		TupleKeys: []fgaSdk.TupleKey { 
			{
				User: fgaSdk.PtrString("anne"),
				Relation: fgaSdk.PtrString("admin"),
				Object: fgaSdk.PtrString("repo:1"),
			}, 
			{
				User: fgaSdk.PtrString("anne"),
				Relation: fgaSdk.PtrString("admin"),
				Object: fgaSdk.PtrString("repo:2"),
			}, 
		},
	},
}

_, response, err := fgaClient.Auth0FgaApi.Write(context.Background()).Body(body).Execute()
if err != nil {
    // .. Handle error
}

.NET

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
// import the SDK
using Auth0.Fga.Api;
using Auth0.Fga.Configuration;
using Environment = System.Environment;

namespace ExampleApp;

class MyProgram {
    static async Task Main() {
        var storeId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_STORE_ID");
        var environment = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_ENVIRONMENT")
        var configuration = new Configuration(storeId, environment) {
            ClientId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_CLIENT_ID"),
            ClientSecret = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_CLIENT_SECRET"),
        };
        var fgaClient = new Auth0FgaApi(configuration);
    }
}

await fgaClient.Write(new WriteRequestParams {
  Writes = new TupleKeys(new List<TupleKey>() {
    new() { User = "anne", Relation = "admin", Object = "repo:1" },
    new() { User = "anne", Relation = "admin", Object = "repo:2" }
  })
});

curl

Get the Bearer Token and set up the FGA_API_URL environment variable

# Not needed when calling the Playground API
curl -X POST \
   https://fga.us.auth0.com/oauth/token \
   -H 'content-type: application/json' \
   -d '{"client_id":"'$FGA_CLIENT_ID'","client_secret":"'$FGA_CLIENT_SECRET'","audience":"https://api.us1.fga.dev/","grant_type":"client_credentials"}'

# The response will be returned in the form
# {
#  "access_token": "eyJ...Ggg",
#  "expires_in": 86400,
#  "scope": "read:tuples write:tuples check:tuples ... write:authorization-models",
#  "token_type": "Bearer"
# }
# Store this `access_token` value in environment variable `FGA_BEARER_TOKEN`

# For non-playground environment
FGA_API_URL='https://api.us1.fga.dev'
# For playground environment
# FGA_API_URL='https://api.playground.fga.dev'

curl -X POST $FGA_API_URL/stores/$FGA_STORE_ID/write \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FGA_BEARER_TOKEN" \ # Not needed if service does not require authorization
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"writes": { "tuple_keys" : [{"user":"anne","relation":"admin","object":"repo:1"},{"user":"anne","relation":"admin","object":"repo:2"}] }}'

Pseudocode

write([
    {
      "user":"anne",
      "relation":"admin",
      "object":"repo:1"
    },
    {
      "user":"anne",
      "relation":"admin",
      "object":"repo:2"
    }
])

In general, every time we wanted to add a new admin relationship to a repo we'd have to add a new tuple. This doesn't scale as the list of repos and users grows.

01. Modify authorization model

Another way of modeling this is to have an authorization model as follows:

DSL

type repo
  relations
    define admin as self or repo_admin from owner
    define owner as self
type org
  relations
    define repo_admin as self

JSON

{
  "type_definitions": [
    {
      "type": "repo",
      "relations": {
        "admin": {
          "union": {
            "child": [
              {
                "this": {}
              },
              {
                "tupleToUserset": {
                  "tupleset": {
                    "object": "",
                    "relation": "owner"
                  },
                  "computedUserset": {
                    "object": "",
                    "relation": "repo_admin"
                  }
                }
              }
            ]
          }
        },
        "owner": {
          "this": {}
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "org",
      "relations": {
        "repo_admin": {
          "this": {}
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

In this model, we have:

• added a new type org with one relation repo_admin.
• added a new relation owner for type repo.
• re-defined the relation admin for repo. A user can be defined as an admin directly, as we have seen above, or through the repo_admin from owner clause. How this works, for example, is that if user is related as repo_admin to org:xyz, and org:xyz is related as owner to repo:1, then user is an admin of repo:1.

02. Adding relationship tuples where user is another object

With this model, we can add tuples representing that an org is the owner of a repo. By adding following relationship tuples, we are indicating that the xyz organization is the owner of repositories with IDs 1 and 2:

Node.js

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
// import the SDK
const { Auth0FgaApi } = require('@auth0/fga');

// Initialize the SDK
const fgaClient = new Auth0FgaApi({
  environment: process.env.FGA_ENVIRONMENT,
  storeId: process.env.FGA_STORE_ID,
  clientId: process.env.FGA_CLIENT_ID,
  clientSecret: process.env.FGA_CLIENT_SECRET,
});

await fgaClient.write({
  writes: {
    tuple_keys: [
      { user: 'org:xyz', relation: 'owner', object: 'repo:1'},
      { user: 'org:xyz', relation: 'owner', object: 'repo:2'}
    ]
  }
});

Go

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
import (
    fgaSdk "github.com/auth0-lab/fga-go-sdk"
    "os"
)

func Main() {
    configuration, err := fgaSdk.NewConfiguration(fgaSdk.UserConfiguration{
        Environment:  os.Getenv("FGA_ENVIRONMENT"),
        StoreId:      os.Getenv("FGA_STORE_ID"),
        ClientId:     os.Getenv("FGA_CLIENT_ID"),
        ClientSecret: os.Getenv("FGA_CLIENT_SECRET"),
    })

    if err != nil {
    // .. Handle error
    }

    fgaClient := fgaSdk.NewAPIClient(configuration)
}

body := fgaSdk.WriteRequestParams{
	Writes:  &fgaSdk.TupleKeys{
		TupleKeys: []fgaSdk.TupleKey { 
			{
				User: fgaSdk.PtrString("org:xyz"),
				Relation: fgaSdk.PtrString("owner"),
				Object: fgaSdk.PtrString("repo:1"),
			}, 
			{
				User: fgaSdk.PtrString("org:xyz"),
				Relation: fgaSdk.PtrString("owner"),
				Object: fgaSdk.PtrString("repo:2"),
			}, 
		},
	},
}

_, response, err := fgaClient.Auth0FgaApi.Write(context.Background()).Body(body).Execute()
if err != nil {
    // .. Handle error
}

.NET

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
// import the SDK
using Auth0.Fga.Api;
using Auth0.Fga.Configuration;
using Environment = System.Environment;

namespace ExampleApp;

class MyProgram {
    static async Task Main() {
        var storeId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_STORE_ID");
        var environment = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_ENVIRONMENT")
        var configuration = new Configuration(storeId, environment) {
            ClientId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_CLIENT_ID"),
            ClientSecret = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_CLIENT_SECRET"),
        };
        var fgaClient = new Auth0FgaApi(configuration);
    }
}

await fgaClient.Write(new WriteRequestParams {
  Writes = new TupleKeys(new List<TupleKey>() {
    new() { User = "org:xyz", Relation = "owner", Object = "repo:1" },
    new() { User = "org:xyz", Relation = "owner", Object = "repo:2" }
  })
});

curl

Get the Bearer Token and set up the FGA_API_URL environment variable

# Not needed when calling the Playground API
curl -X POST \
   https://fga.us.auth0.com/oauth/token \
   -H 'content-type: application/json' \
   -d '{"client_id":"'$FGA_CLIENT_ID'","client_secret":"'$FGA_CLIENT_SECRET'","audience":"https://api.us1.fga.dev/","grant_type":"client_credentials"}'

# The response will be returned in the form
# {
#  "access_token": "eyJ...Ggg",
#  "expires_in": 86400,
#  "scope": "read:tuples write:tuples check:tuples ... write:authorization-models",
#  "token_type": "Bearer"
# }
# Store this `access_token` value in environment variable `FGA_BEARER_TOKEN`

# For non-playground environment
FGA_API_URL='https://api.us1.fga.dev'
# For playground environment
# FGA_API_URL='https://api.playground.fga.dev'

curl -X POST $FGA_API_URL/stores/$FGA_STORE_ID/write \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FGA_BEARER_TOKEN" \ # Not needed if service does not require authorization
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"writes": { "tuple_keys" : [{"user":"org:xyz","relation":"owner","object":"repo:1"},{"user":"org:xyz","relation":"owner","object":"repo:2"}] }}'

Pseudocode

write([
    {
      "user":"org:xyz",
      "relation":"owner",
      "object":"repo:1"
    },
    {
      "user":"org:xyz",
      "relation":"owner",
      "object":"repo:2"
    }
])

03. Adding relationship tuples to the other object

Now, imagine we have a new user Becky. If we wanted to have Becky be the admin of all repos without having to add one tuple per repo, all we need to do is add one tuple that says that Becky is related as repo_admin to org:xyz.

Node.js

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
// import the SDK
const { Auth0FgaApi } = require('@auth0/fga');

// Initialize the SDK
const fgaClient = new Auth0FgaApi({
  environment: process.env.FGA_ENVIRONMENT,
  storeId: process.env.FGA_STORE_ID,
  clientId: process.env.FGA_CLIENT_ID,
  clientSecret: process.env.FGA_CLIENT_SECRET,
});

await fgaClient.write({
  writes: {
    tuple_keys: [
      { user: 'becky', relation: 'repo_admin', object: 'org:xyz'}
    ]
  }
});

Go

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
import (
    fgaSdk "github.com/auth0-lab/fga-go-sdk"
    "os"
)

func Main() {
    configuration, err := fgaSdk.NewConfiguration(fgaSdk.UserConfiguration{
        Environment:  os.Getenv("FGA_ENVIRONMENT"),
        StoreId:      os.Getenv("FGA_STORE_ID"),
        ClientId:     os.Getenv("FGA_CLIENT_ID"),
        ClientSecret: os.Getenv("FGA_CLIENT_SECRET"),
    })

    if err != nil {
    // .. Handle error
    }

    fgaClient := fgaSdk.NewAPIClient(configuration)
}

body := fgaSdk.WriteRequestParams{
	Writes:  &fgaSdk.TupleKeys{
		TupleKeys: []fgaSdk.TupleKey { 
			{
				User: fgaSdk.PtrString("becky"),
				Relation: fgaSdk.PtrString("repo_admin"),
				Object: fgaSdk.PtrString("org:xyz"),
			}, 
		},
	},
}

_, response, err := fgaClient.Auth0FgaApi.Write(context.Background()).Body(body).Execute()
if err != nil {
    // .. Handle error
}

.NET

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
// import the SDK
using Auth0.Fga.Api;
using Auth0.Fga.Configuration;
using Environment = System.Environment;

namespace ExampleApp;

class MyProgram {
    static async Task Main() {
        var storeId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_STORE_ID");
        var environment = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_ENVIRONMENT")
        var configuration = new Configuration(storeId, environment) {
            ClientId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_CLIENT_ID"),
            ClientSecret = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_CLIENT_SECRET"),
        };
        var fgaClient = new Auth0FgaApi(configuration);
    }
}

await fgaClient.Write(new WriteRequestParams {
  Writes = new TupleKeys(new List<TupleKey>() {
    new() { User = "becky", Relation = "repo_admin", Object = "org:xyz" }
  })
});

curl

Get the Bearer Token and set up the FGA_API_URL environment variable

# Not needed when calling the Playground API
curl -X POST \
   https://fga.us.auth0.com/oauth/token \
   -H 'content-type: application/json' \
   -d '{"client_id":"'$FGA_CLIENT_ID'","client_secret":"'$FGA_CLIENT_SECRET'","audience":"https://api.us1.fga.dev/","grant_type":"client_credentials"}'

# The response will be returned in the form
# {
#  "access_token": "eyJ...Ggg",
#  "expires_in": 86400,
#  "scope": "read:tuples write:tuples check:tuples ... write:authorization-models",
#  "token_type": "Bearer"
# }
# Store this `access_token` value in environment variable `FGA_BEARER_TOKEN`

# For non-playground environment
FGA_API_URL='https://api.us1.fga.dev'
# For playground environment
# FGA_API_URL='https://api.playground.fga.dev'

curl -X POST $FGA_API_URL/stores/$FGA_STORE_ID/write \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FGA_BEARER_TOKEN" \ # Not needed if service does not require authorization
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"writes": { "tuple_keys" : [{"user":"becky","relation":"repo_admin","object":"org:xyz"}] }}'

Pseudocode

write([
    {
      "user":"becky",
      "relation":"repo_admin",
      "object":"org:xyz"
    }
])

04. Validating user access

We can now verify that Becky an admin of all the repos owned by org:xyz:

Node.js

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
// import the SDK
const { Auth0FgaApi } = require('@auth0/fga');

// Initialize the SDK
const fgaClient = new Auth0FgaApi({
  environment: process.env.FGA_ENVIRONMENT,
  storeId: process.env.FGA_STORE_ID,
  clientId: process.env.FGA_CLIENT_ID,
  clientSecret: process.env.FGA_CLIENT_SECRET,
});

// Run a check
const { allowed } = await fgaClient.check({
  tuple_key: {
    user: 'becky',
    relation: 'admin',
    object: 'repo:1',
  },});

// allowed = true

Go

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
import (
    fgaSdk "github.com/auth0-lab/fga-go-sdk"
    "os"
)

func Main() {
    configuration, err := fgaSdk.NewConfiguration(fgaSdk.UserConfiguration{
        Environment:  os.Getenv("FGA_ENVIRONMENT"),
        StoreId:      os.Getenv("FGA_STORE_ID"),
        ClientId:     os.Getenv("FGA_CLIENT_ID"),
        ClientSecret: os.Getenv("FGA_CLIENT_SECRET"),
    })

    if err != nil {
    // .. Handle error
    }

    fgaClient := fgaSdk.NewAPIClient(configuration)
}

body := fgaSdk.CheckRequestParams{
	TupleKey: &fgaSdk.TupleKey{
		User: fgaSdk.PtrString("becky"),
		Relation: fgaSdk.PtrString("admin"),
		Object: fgaSdk.PtrString("repo:1"),
	},
data, response, err := fgaClient.Auth0FgaApi.Check(context.Background()).Body(body).Execute()

// data = { allowed: true }

.NET

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
// import the SDK
using Auth0.Fga.Api;
using Auth0.Fga.Configuration;
using Environment = System.Environment;

namespace ExampleApp;

class MyProgram {
    static async Task Main() {
        var storeId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_STORE_ID");
        var environment = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_ENVIRONMENT")
        var configuration = new Configuration(storeId, environment) {
            ClientId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_CLIENT_ID"),
            ClientSecret = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_CLIENT_SECRET"),
        };
        var fgaClient = new Auth0FgaApi(configuration);
    }
}

// Run a check
var response = await fgaClient.Check(new CheckRequestParams(new TupleKey {
  User = "becky",
  Relation = "admin",
  Object = "repo:1"
});

// response.Allowed = true

curl

Get the Bearer Token and set up the FGA_API_URL environment variable

# Not needed when calling the Playground API
curl -X POST \
   https://fga.us.auth0.com/oauth/token \
   -H 'content-type: application/json' \
   -d '{"client_id":"'$FGA_CLIENT_ID'","client_secret":"'$FGA_CLIENT_SECRET'","audience":"https://api.us1.fga.dev/","grant_type":"client_credentials"}'

# The response will be returned in the form
# {
#  "access_token": "eyJ...Ggg",
#  "expires_in": 86400,
#  "scope": "read:tuples write:tuples check:tuples ... write:authorization-models",
#  "token_type": "Bearer"
# }
# Store this `access_token` value in environment variable `FGA_BEARER_TOKEN`

# For non-playground environment
FGA_API_URL='https://api.us1.fga.dev'
# For playground environment
# FGA_API_URL='https://api.playground.fga.dev'

curl -X POST $FGA_API_URL/stores/$FGA_STORE_ID/check \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FGA_BEARER_TOKEN" \ # Not needed if service does not require authorization
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"tuple_key":{"user":"becky","relation":"admin","object":"repo:1"}}'

# Response: {"allowed":true}

Pseudocode

check(
  "becky", // check if the user `becky`
  "admin", // has an `admin` relation
  "repo:1", // with the object `repo:1`
  
);

Reply: true

Playground

is becky related to repo:1 as admin?


# Response: A green path from the user to the object indicating that the response from the API is `{"allowed":true}`

Node.js

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
// import the SDK
const { Auth0FgaApi } = require('@auth0/fga');

// Initialize the SDK
const fgaClient = new Auth0FgaApi({
  environment: process.env.FGA_ENVIRONMENT,
  storeId: process.env.FGA_STORE_ID,
  clientId: process.env.FGA_CLIENT_ID,
  clientSecret: process.env.FGA_CLIENT_SECRET,
});

// Run a check
const { allowed } = await fgaClient.check({
  tuple_key: {
    user: 'becky',
    relation: 'admin',
    object: 'repo:2',
  },});

// allowed = true

Go

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
import (
    fgaSdk "github.com/auth0-lab/fga-go-sdk"
    "os"
)

func Main() {
    configuration, err := fgaSdk.NewConfiguration(fgaSdk.UserConfiguration{
        Environment:  os.Getenv("FGA_ENVIRONMENT"),
        StoreId:      os.Getenv("FGA_STORE_ID"),
        ClientId:     os.Getenv("FGA_CLIENT_ID"),
        ClientSecret: os.Getenv("FGA_CLIENT_SECRET"),
    })

    if err != nil {
    // .. Handle error
    }

    fgaClient := fgaSdk.NewAPIClient(configuration)
}

body := fgaSdk.CheckRequestParams{
	TupleKey: &fgaSdk.TupleKey{
		User: fgaSdk.PtrString("becky"),
		Relation: fgaSdk.PtrString("admin"),
		Object: fgaSdk.PtrString("repo:2"),
	},
data, response, err := fgaClient.Auth0FgaApi.Check(context.Background()).Body(body).Execute()

// data = { allowed: true }

.NET

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
// import the SDK
using Auth0.Fga.Api;
using Auth0.Fga.Configuration;
using Environment = System.Environment;

namespace ExampleApp;

class MyProgram {
    static async Task Main() {
        var storeId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_STORE_ID");
        var environment = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_ENVIRONMENT")
        var configuration = new Configuration(storeId, environment) {
            ClientId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_CLIENT_ID"),
            ClientSecret = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_CLIENT_SECRET"),
        };
        var fgaClient = new Auth0FgaApi(configuration);
    }
}

// Run a check
var response = await fgaClient.Check(new CheckRequestParams(new TupleKey {
  User = "becky",
  Relation = "admin",
  Object = "repo:2"
});

// response.Allowed = true

curl

Get the Bearer Token and set up the FGA_API_URL environment variable

# Not needed when calling the Playground API
curl -X POST \
   https://fga.us.auth0.com/oauth/token \
   -H 'content-type: application/json' \
   -d '{"client_id":"'$FGA_CLIENT_ID'","client_secret":"'$FGA_CLIENT_SECRET'","audience":"https://api.us1.fga.dev/","grant_type":"client_credentials"}'

# The response will be returned in the form
# {
#  "access_token": "eyJ...Ggg",
#  "expires_in": 86400,
#  "scope": "read:tuples write:tuples check:tuples ... write:authorization-models",
#  "token_type": "Bearer"
# }
# Store this `access_token` value in environment variable `FGA_BEARER_TOKEN`

# For non-playground environment
FGA_API_URL='https://api.us1.fga.dev'
# For playground environment
# FGA_API_URL='https://api.playground.fga.dev'

curl -X POST $FGA_API_URL/stores/$FGA_STORE_ID/check \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FGA_BEARER_TOKEN" \ # Not needed if service does not require authorization
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"tuple_key":{"user":"becky","relation":"admin","object":"repo:2"}}'

# Response: {"allowed":true}

Pseudocode

check(
  "becky", // check if the user `becky`
  "admin", // has an `admin` relation
  "repo:2", // with the object `repo:2`
  
);

Reply: true

Playground

is becky related to repo:2 as admin?


# Response: A green path from the user to the object indicating that the response from the API is `{"allowed":true}`

05. Revoking access

Suppose now that we want to prevent users from being an admin of repo:1 via org:xyz. We can delete one tuple:

Node.js

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
// import the SDK
const { Auth0FgaApi } = require('@auth0/fga');

// Initialize the SDK
const fgaClient = new Auth0FgaApi({
  environment: process.env.FGA_ENVIRONMENT,
  storeId: process.env.FGA_STORE_ID,
  clientId: process.env.FGA_CLIENT_ID,
  clientSecret: process.env.FGA_CLIENT_SECRET,
});

await fgaClient.write({
  deletes: {
   tuple_keys : [
      { user: 'org:xyz', relation: 'owner', object: 'repo:1'}
    ]
  }
});

Go

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
import (
    fgaSdk "github.com/auth0-lab/fga-go-sdk"
    "os"
)

func Main() {
    configuration, err := fgaSdk.NewConfiguration(fgaSdk.UserConfiguration{
        Environment:  os.Getenv("FGA_ENVIRONMENT"),
        StoreId:      os.Getenv("FGA_STORE_ID"),
        ClientId:     os.Getenv("FGA_CLIENT_ID"),
        ClientSecret: os.Getenv("FGA_CLIENT_SECRET"),
    })

    if err != nil {
    // .. Handle error
    }

    fgaClient := fgaSdk.NewAPIClient(configuration)
}

body := fgaSdk.WriteRequestParams{
	Deletes: &fgaSdk.TupleKeys{
		TupleKeys: []fgaSdk.TupleKey { 
			{
				User: fgaSdk.PtrString("org:xyz"),
				Relation: fgaSdk.PtrString("owner"),
				Object: fgaSdk.PtrString("repo:1"),
			}, 
		},
	},
}

_, response, err := fgaClient.Auth0FgaApi.Write(context.Background()).Body(body).Execute()
if err != nil {
    // .. Handle error
}

.NET

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
// import the SDK
using Auth0.Fga.Api;
using Auth0.Fga.Configuration;
using Environment = System.Environment;

namespace ExampleApp;

class MyProgram {
    static async Task Main() {
        var storeId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_STORE_ID");
        var environment = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_ENVIRONMENT")
        var configuration = new Configuration(storeId, environment) {
            ClientId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_CLIENT_ID"),
            ClientSecret = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_CLIENT_SECRET"),
        };
        var fgaClient = new Auth0FgaApi(configuration);
    }
}

await fgaClient.Write(new WriteRequestParams {
  Deletes = new TupleKeys(new List<TupleKey>() {
    new() { User = "org:xyz", Relation = "owner", Object = "repo:1" }
  })
});

curl

Get the Bearer Token and set up the FGA_API_URL environment variable

# Not needed when calling the Playground API
curl -X POST \
   https://fga.us.auth0.com/oauth/token \
   -H 'content-type: application/json' \
   -d '{"client_id":"'$FGA_CLIENT_ID'","client_secret":"'$FGA_CLIENT_SECRET'","audience":"https://api.us1.fga.dev/","grant_type":"client_credentials"}'

# The response will be returned in the form
# {
#  "access_token": "eyJ...Ggg",
#  "expires_in": 86400,
#  "scope": "read:tuples write:tuples check:tuples ... write:authorization-models",
#  "token_type": "Bearer"
# }
# Store this `access_token` value in environment variable `FGA_BEARER_TOKEN`

# For non-playground environment
FGA_API_URL='https://api.us1.fga.dev'
# For playground environment
# FGA_API_URL='https://api.playground.fga.dev'

curl -X POST $FGA_API_URL/stores/$FGA_STORE_ID/write \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FGA_BEARER_TOKEN" \ # Not needed if service does not require authorization
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"deletes": { "tuple_keys" : [{"user":"org:xyz","relation":"owner","object":"repo:1"}] }}'

Pseudocode

delete([
    {
      "user":"org:xyz",
      "relation":"owner",
      "object":"repo:1"
    }
])

With this change, we may now verify that Becky is no longer an admin of repo:1.

Node.js

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
// import the SDK
const { Auth0FgaApi } = require('@auth0/fga');

// Initialize the SDK
const fgaClient = new Auth0FgaApi({
  environment: process.env.FGA_ENVIRONMENT,
  storeId: process.env.FGA_STORE_ID,
  clientId: process.env.FGA_CLIENT_ID,
  clientSecret: process.env.FGA_CLIENT_SECRET,
});

// Run a check
const { allowed } = await fgaClient.check({
  tuple_key: {
    user: 'becky',
    relation: 'admin',
    object: 'repo:1',
  },});

// allowed = false

Go

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
import (
    fgaSdk "github.com/auth0-lab/fga-go-sdk"
    "os"
)

func Main() {
    configuration, err := fgaSdk.NewConfiguration(fgaSdk.UserConfiguration{
        Environment:  os.Getenv("FGA_ENVIRONMENT"),
        StoreId:      os.Getenv("FGA_STORE_ID"),
        ClientId:     os.Getenv("FGA_CLIENT_ID"),
        ClientSecret: os.Getenv("FGA_CLIENT_SECRET"),
    })

    if err != nil {
    // .. Handle error
    }

    fgaClient := fgaSdk.NewAPIClient(configuration)
}

body := fgaSdk.CheckRequestParams{
	TupleKey: &fgaSdk.TupleKey{
		User: fgaSdk.PtrString("becky"),
		Relation: fgaSdk.PtrString("admin"),
		Object: fgaSdk.PtrString("repo:1"),
	},
data, response, err := fgaClient.Auth0FgaApi.Check(context.Background()).Body(body).Execute()

// data = { allowed: false }

.NET

Initialize the SDK

// FGA_ENVIRONMENT can be "us" (default if not set) for Developer Community Preview or "playground" for the Playground API
// import the SDK
using Auth0.Fga.Api;
using Auth0.Fga.Configuration;
using Environment = System.Environment;

namespace ExampleApp;

class MyProgram {
    static async Task Main() {
        var storeId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_STORE_ID");
        var environment = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_ENVIRONMENT")
        var configuration = new Configuration(storeId, environment) {
            ClientId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_CLIENT_ID"),
            ClientSecret = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FGA_CLIENT_SECRET"),
        };
        var fgaClient = new Auth0FgaApi(configuration);
    }
}

// Run a check
var response = await fgaClient.Check(new CheckRequestParams(new TupleKey {
  User = "becky",
  Relation = "admin",
  Object = "repo:1"
});

// response.Allowed = false

curl

Get the Bearer Token and set up the FGA_API_URL environment variable

# Not needed when calling the Playground API
curl -X POST \
   https://fga.us.auth0.com/oauth/token \
   -H 'content-type: application/json' \
   -d '{"client_id":"'$FGA_CLIENT_ID'","client_secret":"'$FGA_CLIENT_SECRET'","audience":"https://api.us1.fga.dev/","grant_type":"client_credentials"}'

# The response will be returned in the form
# {
#  "access_token": "eyJ...Ggg",
#  "expires_in": 86400,
#  "scope": "read:tuples write:tuples check:tuples ... write:authorization-models",
#  "token_type": "Bearer"
# }
# Store this `access_token` value in environment variable `FGA_BEARER_TOKEN`

# For non-playground environment
FGA_API_URL='https://api.us1.fga.dev'
# For playground environment
# FGA_API_URL='https://api.playground.fga.dev'

curl -X POST $FGA_API_URL/stores/$FGA_STORE_ID/check \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FGA_BEARER_TOKEN" \ # Not needed if service does not require authorization
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"tuple_key":{"user":"becky","relation":"admin","object":"repo:1"}}'

# Response: {"allowed":false}

Pseudocode

check(
  "becky", // check if the user `becky`
  "admin", // has an `admin` relation
  "repo:1", // with the object `repo:1`
  
);

Reply: false

Playground

is becky related to repo:1 as admin?


# Response: A red object indicating that the response from the API is `{"allowed":false}`

Related Sections

Check the following sections for more on how to model relationships between objects.

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Modeling Object to Object Relationships

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Modeling GitHub

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