Updating a few core endpoints to better integrate the groups system and make sure users always have the correct role ID updated onto them.

packages/backend-core/src/security/roles.js

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ function isBuiltin(role) {
  */
 exports.builtinRoleToNumber = id => {
   const builtins = exports.getBuiltinRoles()
-  const MAX = Object.values(BUILTIN_IDS).length + 1
+  const MAX = Object.values(builtins).length + 1
   if (id === BUILTIN_IDS.ADMIN || id === BUILTIN_IDS.BUILDER) {
     return MAX
   }
@@ -94,6 +94,22 @@ exports.builtinRoleToNumber = id => {
   return count
 }
 
+/**
+ * Converts any role to a number, but has to be async to get the roles from db.
+ */
+exports.roleToNumber = async id => {
+  if (exports.isBuiltin(id)) {
+    return exports.builtinRoleToNumber(id)
+  }
+  const hierarchy = await exports.getUserRoleHierarchy(id)
+  for (let role of hierarchy) {
+    if (isBuiltin(role.inherits)) {
+      return exports.builtinRoleToNumber(role.inherits) + 1
+    }
+  }
+  return 0
+}
+
 /**
  * Returns whichever builtin roleID is lower.
  */
@@ -172,7 +188,7 @@ async function getAllUserRoles(userRoleId) {
  * to determine if a user can access something that requires a specific role.
  * @param {string} userRoleId The user's role ID, this can be found in their access token.
  * @param {object} opts Various options, such as whether to only retrieve the IDs (default true).
- * @returns {Promise<string[]>} returns an ordered array of the roles, with the first being their
+ * @returns {Promise<string[]|object[]>} returns an ordered array of the roles, with the first being their
  * highest level of access and the last being the lowest level.
  */
 exports.getUserRoleHierarchy = async (userRoleId, opts = { idOnly: true }) => {

packages/server/src/middleware/authorized.ts

@@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ const checkAuthorizedResource = async (
 ) => {
   // get the user's roles
   const roleId = ctx.roleId || BUILTIN_ROLE_IDS.PUBLIC
-  const userRoles = await getUserRoleHierarchy(roleId, {
+  const userRoles = (await getUserRoleHierarchy(roleId, {
     idOnly: false,
-  })
+  })) as { _id: string }[]
   const permError = "User does not have permission"
   // check if the user has the required role
   if (resourceRoles.length > 0) {

packages/server/src/utilities/global.js

@@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ exports.updateAppRole = (user, { appId } = {}) => {
 }
 
 async function checkGroupRoles(user, { appId } = {}) {
-  let roleId = await groups.getGroupRoleId(user, appId)
+  if (user.roleId && user.roleId !== BUILTIN_ROLE_IDS.PUBLIC) {
-  user.roleId = roleId
+    return user
-
+  }
+  user.roleId = await groups.getGroupRoleId(user, appId)
   return user
 }
 

packages/worker/src/api/controllers/global/self.ts

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ import {
   encryption,
 } from "@budibase/backend-core"
 import env from "../../../environment"
+import { groups } from "@budibase/pro"
+import { enrichUserRolesFromGroups } from "../../../../../../../budibase-pro/packages/pro/src/sdk/groups"
 const { hash, platformLogout, getCookie, clearCookie, newid } = utils
 const { user: userCache } = cache
 
@@ -115,7 +117,8 @@ export async function getSelf(ctx: any) {
   checkCurrentApp(ctx)
 
   // get the main body of the user
-  ctx.body = await users.getUser(userId)
+  const user = await users.getUser(userId)
+  ctx.body = await groups.enrichUserRolesFromGroups(user)
 
   // add the feature flags for this tenant
   const tenantId = tenancy.getTenantId()