Middleware Authorization
Explore how to create and apply authorization middleware in Absinthe for Elixir GraphQL APIs. Understand using middleware macros to enforce user roles, manage context, and simplify resolver functions, enabling secure and maintainable API endpoints.
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Authorization middleware
Adding authorization checks inside all our resolvers will produce clutter, so let’s build middleware to handle this problem fully. As you may recall, we have two choices for how to apply middleware:.We can use the middleware/2 macro to configure individual fields or the middleware/3 callback function to take a pattern-based approach. Different fields have slightly different authorization conditions, so we will use the middleware/2 macro to annotate them individually. Using this middleware should look something like ...