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Permission

Descriptions of explicit privileges of commands.

It can enable commands to be accessible in the frontend of the application.

If the scope is defined it can be used to fine grain control the access of individual or multiple commands.

Object Properties:

  • commands
  • description
  • identifier (required)
  • platforms
  • scope
  • version

Commands

Allowed or denied commands when using this permission.

Default
{
"allow": [],
"deny": []
}

string | null

Human-readable description of what the permission does. Tauri internal convention is to use <h4> headings in markdown content for Tauri documentation generation purposes.

string

A unique identifier for the permission.

Target[] | null

Target platforms this permission applies. By default all platforms are affected by this permission.

Scopes

Allowed or denied scoped when using this permission.

integer | null minimum of 1, formatted as uint64

The version of the permission.

Allowed and denied commands inside a permission.

If two commands clash inside of allow and deny, it should be denied by default.

Object Properties:

  • allow
  • deny

string[]

Allowed command.

Default: []

string[]

Denied command, which takes priority.

Default: []

Any of the following:

  • integer formatted as int64 Represents an [i64].
  • number formatted as double Represents a [f64].

A valid ACL number.

An argument for fine grained behavior control of Tauri commands.

It can be of any serde serializable type and is used to allow or prevent certain actions inside a Tauri command. The configured scope is passed to the command and will be enforced by the command implementation.

{
"allow": [{ "path": "$HOME/**" }],
"deny": [{ "path": "$HOME/secret.txt" }]
}

Object Properties:

  • allow
  • deny

Value[] | null

Data that defines what is allowed by the scope.

Value[] | null

Data that defines what is denied by the scope. This should be prioritized by validation logic.

One of the following:

  • "macOS" MacOS.
  • "windows" Windows.
  • "linux" Linux.
  • "android" Android.
  • "iOS" iOS.

Platform target.

Any of the following:

  • null Represents a null JSON value.
  • boolean Represents a [bool].
  • Number Represents a valid ACL [Number].
  • string Represents a [String].
  • Value[] Represents a list of other [Value]s.
  • Represents a map of [String] keys to [Value]s. Allows additional properties: Value

All supported ACL values.


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