The practical effect of this commit is to make the API check the Rails session
cookie for authentication details. If the cookie is present and valid, it will
be used to authenticate.
The API now has several authentication options for users. They follow in this
order of precedence:
* Authentication token
* Personal access token
* OAuth2 Bearer token (Doorkeeper - application access)
* Rails session cookie
1. Don't use case statements for dispatch anymore. This leads to a lot
of duplication, and makes the logic harder to follow.
2. Remove duplicated logic.
- For example, the `can_push_to_branch?` exists, but we also have a
different way of checking the same condition within `change_access_check`.
- This kind of duplication is removed, and the `can_push_to_branch?`
method is used in both places.
3. Move checks returning true/false to `UserAccess`.
- All public methods in `GitAccess` now return an instance of
`GitAccessStatus`. Previously, some methods would return
true/false as well, which was confusing.
- It makes sense for these kinds of checks to be at the level of a
user, so the `UserAccess` class was repurposed for this. The prior
`UserAccess.allowed?` classmethod is converted into an instance
method.
- All external uses of these checks have been migrated to use the
`UserAccess` class
4. Move the "change_access_check" into a separate class.
- Create the `GitAccess::ChangeAccessCheck` class to run these
checks, which are quite substantial.
- `ChangeAccessCheck` returns an instance of `GitAccessStatus` as
well.
5. Break out the boolean logic in `ChangeAccessCheck` into `if/else`
chains - this seems more readable.
6. I can understand that this might look like overkill for !4892, but I
think this is a good opportunity to clean it up.
- http://martinfowler.com/bliki/OpportunisticRefactoring.html
-Specifying a header of SUDO or adding a :sudo with either user id, or username of the user will set the current_user to be that user if your identifying private_token/PRIVATE_TOKEN is an administrator token
Nick Thomas