Where to test Custom filters for role base user

1

Hi Community,
I have one scenario where I am stuck right now. I have some users which are differentiated base on their roles. Based on their roles, I have set permissions on the table for read and write. For this i have set some custom filters. My scenario is to allow users to see other users of same role. For this i have set custom_filter in user table like below
{
“OR”: [
{
“roles”: {
“some”: {
“name”: {
“contains”: “Regular”
}
}
}
}
]
}

It set perfectly but When I am trying it on API_explorer with this query -

query MyQuery {
usersList {
items {
firstName
email

}

}
}

It showing me details of all users except for same role users. Can anyone guide me here what wrong I am doing it here?

2

Hey @nikhil.kumar

You can test Custom Filters in the API Explorer be making them a variable. For example:

Your Query

query ($customFilter: UserFilter) {
  usersList(filter: $customFIilter) {
    count
  }
}

Your Variable/Filter

{
  "customFilter": {
    "name": {
      "contains": "Steve"
    }
  }
}

For a filter that allows Users to see other users with the same roles, this approach should work.

For setting a static role name.

{
  "roles": {
    "some": {
      "name": {
        "equals": "[MY_ROLE_NAME]"
      }
    }
  }
}

For a single role that should let a user see other users that belong to the roles they are a user of.

{
  "roles": {
    "some": {
      "users": {
        "some": {
          "roles": {
            "some": {
              "users": {
                "some": {
                  "is_self": true
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
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Pretty awesome, thanks @sebastian.scholl. I setup this with custom filter query as you also mentioned, when I tested it over Postman, it worked for me. Will try out the variable way.

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