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Fine-Grained News - July 2024

· 5 min read
Caleb Hunter
Caleb Hunter
Community Engagement

Welcome to the July 2024 edition of Fine-Grained News! We are thrilled to bring you the latest updates, features, and community highlights from OpenFGA. This month has included releases, performance improvements, and insights shared through our community meetings and presentations.

We value your feedback and invite you to participate in our 2024 OpenFGA Community Survey. Your insights help us understand your needs better and improve our offerings. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey and let your voice be heard.

Query Consistency Options in OpenFGA

· 2 min read
Andres Aguiar
Andres Aguiar
Product Manager

OpenFGA query APIs now allow specifying the desired consistency of query results. By default, OpenFGA does not use a cache. However, when caching is enabled, it applies to all requests. This means that any changes in permissions won't be reflected in authorization checks during the cache TTL period.

The community expressed the need for flexibility in using the cache on a per-request basis. In response, starting with OpenFGA v1.5.7, all query APIs can accept a consistency parameter with the following values:

List Users API

· 2 min read
Maria Ines Parnisari
Maria Ines Parnisari

Today we are launching a new API for OpenFGA: ListUsers.

This API will answer the question "what users have relation X with object Y?". This will be useful, for example, in UIs that want to display the list of users that a resource has been shared with, e.g. the "share" dialog in Google Docs.

You can read more about it in the API docs and the product documentation.

Modular Models

· 2 min read
Ewan Harris
Ewan Harris

Modular models aims to improve the model authoring experience when multiple teams are maintaining a model, such as:

  • A model can grow large and difficult to understand
  • As more teams begin to contribute to a model, the ownership boundaries may not be clear and code review processes might not scale

With modular models, a single model can be separated across multiple files allow grouping of types and conditions into modules. This means that a model can be organized more easily in terms of team or organizational structure. Used in conjunction with features such as GitHub, GitLab or Gitea's code owners, it should become easier to ensure the owners of a portion of your model are correctly assigned to review it.