Ekklesia/core/src/authorization/evaluator.ts

import {
  AUTHORIZATION_ALLOWED,
  AUTHORIZATION_DENIED,
  type AuthorizationDecision,
  type AuthorizationScope,
  type EkklesiaPrincipal,
  isAuthenticatedPrincipal,
  permissionBaselineSchema,
  safeParseAuthorizationScope,
  safeParsePermissionId,
} from "@ekklesia/contracts";
import type { AuthorizationGrantPort, AuthorizationPlatformOwnerPort } from "./ports.js";

export type AuthorizationEvaluationErrorCode = "AUTHORIZATION_EVALUATION_FAILED";

/** Never carries the underlying port error, database error, cause, stack, or any other internal
 * detail — defense in depth on top of whatever sanitization the injected ports themselves already
 * perform (`core/src/authorization/store.ts` already sanitizes), exactly like
 * `core/src/identity/runtime.ts`'s `resolvePrincipal` re-sanitizes on top of Better Auth's own
 * error handling rather than trusting it exclusively. */
export class AuthorizationEvaluationError extends Error {
  readonly code: AuthorizationEvaluationErrorCode;

  constructor() {
    super("The authorization decision could not be evaluated.");
    this.name = "AuthorizationEvaluationError";
    this.code = "AUTHORIZATION_EVALUATION_FAILED";
    this.stack = `${this.name}: ${this.message}`;
    Object.freeze(this);
  }
}

export interface AuthorizeRequest {
  readonly principal: EkklesiaPrincipal;
  /** Validated internally via the branded `PermissionId` schema *before any baseline can return an
   * allowed decision* — a malformed or unrecognizable value denies rather than throwing, for
   * `public` and `authenticated` baselines exactly as much as `restricted`. This is shape
   * validation only: the evaluator has no registry and cannot tell a well-formed-but-unregistered
   * permission from one that is actually registered. Only a trusted caller consulting a
   * `PermissionRegistry` (`core/src/authorization/permissions.ts`) before calling `authorize` can
   * make that distinction — see that module and `apps/api/src/authorization-middleware.ts`. */
  readonly permission: unknown;
  /** Validated internally against the known `public`/`authenticated`/`restricted` set; anything
   * else denies rather than throwing, for the same fail-closed reason. */
  readonly baseline: unknown;
  /** Optional; validated internally when present. Absent means an unscoped check. */
  readonly scope?: unknown;
}

export interface AuthorizationEvaluator {
  authorize(request: AuthorizeRequest): Promise<AuthorizationDecision>;
}

export interface CreateAuthorizationEvaluatorOptions {
  readonly grants: AuthorizationGrantPort;
  readonly platformOwners: AuthorizationPlatformOwnerPort;
  /** Injectable clock so expiration evaluation is deterministic and testable. Defaults to the
   * real wall clock; production composition must leave this unset. */
  readonly now?: () => Date;
}

/**
 * Core's Hono-independent, deny-by-default authorization evaluator. It is the only place
 * Ekklesia decides whether a principal may exercise a permission, and it never trusts anything
 * the caller supplies beyond `principal`/`permission`/`baseline`/`scope` — there is no field for a
 * caller to assert "I am the owner" or "I already have this grant." Owner and grant state are
 * always re-derived from the injected ports for every call.
 *
 * A genuine infrastructure failure from either port (for example a database outage) is
 * deliberately NOT swallowed into a `denied` decision here: it propagates to the caller as a
 * thrown, sanitized `AuthorizationEvaluationError`, exactly like Core's identity
 * `resolvePrincipal` never silently downgrades an outage to "anonymous." Only a genuinely
 * malformed or unrecognized permission/baseline/scope — a deterministic, expected input problem,
 * not an infrastructure failure — resolves to `denied` without throwing.
 */
export function createAuthorizationEvaluator(
  options: CreateAuthorizationEvaluatorOptions,
): AuthorizationEvaluator {
  const now = options.now ?? (() => new Date());

  return Object.freeze({
    authorize: async (request: AuthorizeRequest): Promise<AuthorizationDecision> => {
      const parsedBaseline = permissionBaselineSchema.safeParse(request.baseline);
      if (!parsedBaseline.success) {
        return AUTHORIZATION_DENIED;
      }

      // Shape-validated before any baseline is allowed to return `allowed` — a malformed
      // permission id must deny under `public` and `authenticated` exactly as much as under
      // `restricted`, even though neither of the first two ever reads `parsedPermission.data`.
      // This is a pure, synchronous check: it never touches the grant or platform-owner ports, so
      // `public`/`authenticated` still resolve with no database lookup at all.
      const parsedPermission = safeParsePermissionId(request.permission);
      if (!parsedPermission.success) {
        return AUTHORIZATION_DENIED;
      }

      if (parsedBaseline.data === "public") {
        return AUTHORIZATION_ALLOWED;
      }

      if (parsedBaseline.data === "authenticated") {
        return isAuthenticatedPrincipal(request.principal)
          ? AUTHORIZATION_ALLOWED
          : AUTHORIZATION_DENIED;
      }

      // parsedBaseline.data === "restricted": requires an authenticated principal AND
      // (an active matching grant OR platform-owner authority). Baseline alone never satisfies it.
      if (!isAuthenticatedPrincipal(request.principal)) {
        return AUTHORIZATION_DENIED;
      }

      let scope: AuthorizationScope | undefined;
      if (request.scope !== undefined) {
        const parsedScope = safeParseAuthorizationScope(request.scope);
        if (!parsedScope.success) {
          return AUTHORIZATION_DENIED;
        }
        scope = parsedScope.data;
      }

      const userId = request.principal.userId;
      let isOwner: boolean;
      let hasGrant: boolean;
      try {
        [isOwner, hasGrant] = await Promise.all([
          options.platformOwners.isPlatformOwner(userId),
          options.grants.hasActiveGrant({
            now: now(),
            permission: parsedPermission.data,
            userId,
            ...(scope === undefined ? {} : { scope }),
          }),
        ]);
      } catch {
        throw new AuthorizationEvaluationError();
      }

      return isOwner || hasGrant ? AUTHORIZATION_ALLOWED : AUTHORIZATION_DENIED;
    },
  });
}