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as an iOS developer primarily, I'm very new to webdev. I'm looking into Meteor and have some questions regarding routing -- my apologies if they are very easy.
I am using the Meteor Router package to create routes, but I would like to have some pages only accessible to the admin user.
Meteor.Router.add({
'/' : 'home',
'/admin' : 'admin'
});
So I have a simple route setup as above, but I'm not sure how to restrict access to the /admin route.
Is it as simple as something like this? What would be a good way to restrict the route to the /admin page and show a warning or perhaps even redirect them back to the / page?
Thank you!
client.html
<head>
<title>My App</title>
</head>
<body>
{{renderPage}}
</body>
<template name="home">
{{greeting}}
</template>
<template name="admin">
{{greeting}}
</template>
client.js
Template.admin.greeting = function () {
var currentUser = Meteor.user();
if (null !== currentUser && 'admin' === currentUser.username) {
return "Hello Admin!";
}
else{
return "Sorry, only admins can see this page";
}
};
903
The best way to restrict access to a route is with the router itself (rather than pushing the problem to your controller). You have a couple of choices in how you do this:
You could make the /admin route look like:
'/admin': function() {
return {
as: 'admin',
to: function() {
if (Meteor.user() && Meteor.user().username === 'admin') {
return 'admin';
} else {
return 'unauthorized';
}
}
};
}
I'm assuming you have an unauthorized template that renders a 403 page or something informative.
Alternatively, you can leave your original /admin route as it was and add a filter:
Meteor.Router.filters({
'needsAdmin': function(page) {
if (Meteor.user() && Meteor.user().username === 'admin') {
return page;
} else {
return 'unauthorized';
}
}
});
and use it like so:
Meteor.Router.filter('needsAdmin', {only: 'admin'});
Personally, I like the filter option because it's reusable and it's a little more obvious what's going on.
156
Another solution is to use Roles package and make sure the user has the 'admin' role before serving data.
$ mrt add roles
Then you can check for roles like with a nice syntax:
if(!Roles.userIsInRole(Meteor.user(), ['admin'])) {
// Redirect...
}
Roles is integrated with the Meteor accounts system and plays nicely with most of the accounts packages.
If you are looking to manage accounts (create/delete Roles and add/remove Roles from a given user) I've created the package Accounts Admin UI. The README has a quickstart and some some notes on how to integrate this with other routing packages.
$ mrt add accounts-admin-ui-bootstrap-3
Use the and parameter:
Meteor.Router.add({
'/admin': { to: 'admin', and: function() {
if (!Meteor.user() || Meteor.user().name != 'admin'){
Meteor.Router.to('/');
}
}}
});
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