backbone-with-organizations.md

This document contains some notes on how to work with backbone models related to organization

Models related to organization

• cdb.admin.User: it already existed, but it takes more importance
• cdb.admin.Organization: this represents an organization
• cdb.admin.Permission: permission object, contains the information to know about the ownership and permission list (called acl) of an object. See https://github.com/Vizzuality/cartodb-management/wiki/multiuser-REST-API#permissions-object

Changes

• User model has an organization attribute. Each user is always inside an organization, so this will be always filled. When the organization contains only a user, the application behavior is the same than we currently have (CartoDB 2.0)

• Visualization object contains a permission attribute (instance of cdb.admin.Permission)

How to use them

• add read permissions to a table

canonical_visualization.permission.setPermission(user_model, 'r').save();

• add read/write permissions to a table

canonical_visualization.permission.setPermission(user_model, 'rw').save();

• how to know if the organization for the current user is single or multiuser

user.isInsideOrg()
user.isAdminOrg()

• know what users have access to a visualization

vis.permission.acl.each(function(aclItem) {
    console.log("user " + aclItem.get('user').get('username') + " permission: " + aclItem.get('type'))
})

• know the owner of a visualization

// owner is a cdb.admin.User instance
vis.permission.owner.get('username')