discourse/spec/lib/guardian
Ted Johansson b50b63808c
DEV: Make Guardian#can_see? default to false for unwatched objects (#20412)
When invoking e.g. `can_see?(Foo.new)`, the guardian checks if there's a method `#can_see_foo?` defined and if so uses that to determine whether the user can see it or not.

When such a method is not defined, the guardian currently returns `true`, but it is probably a better call (pun intended) to make it "safe by default" and return `false` instead. I.e. if you can't explicitly see it, you can't see it at all.

This change makes the change to `Guardian#can_see?` to fall back to `false` if no visibility check method is defined.

For `#can_see_user?` and `#can_see_tag?` we don't have any particular logic that prevents viewing. We previously relied on the implicit `true` value, but since that's now change to `false`, I have explicitly implemented these two methods in `UserGuardian` and `TagGuardian` modules. If in the future we want to add some logic for it, this would be the place.

To be clear, **the behaviour remains the same**, but the `true` value is now explicit rather than implicit.
2023-02-24 15:57:01 +08:00
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topic_guardian_spec.rb FIX: error anonymous when tl4_delete_posts_and_topics setting (#20257) 2023-02-13 15:34:04 +11:00
user_guardian_spec.rb DEV: Make Guardian#can_see? default to false for unwatched objects (#20412) 2023-02-24 15:57:01 +08:00