{"id": "internals:datasette-permission-allowed", "page": "internals", "ref": "datasette-permission-allowed", "title": "await .permission_allowed(actor, action, resource=None, default=...)", "content": "actor - dictionary \n \n The authenticated actor. This is usually request.actor . \n \n \n \n action - string \n \n The name of the action that is being permission checked. \n \n \n \n resource - string or tuple, optional \n \n The resource, e.g. the name of the database, or a tuple of two strings containing the name of the database and the name of the table. Only some permissions apply to a resource. \n \n \n \n default - optional: True, False or None \n \n What value should be returned by default if nothing provides an opinion on this permission check.\n Set to True for default allow or False for default deny.\n If not specified the default from the Permission() tuple that was registered using register_permissions(datasette) will be used. \n \n \n \n Check if the given actor has permission to perform the given action on the given resource. \n Some permission checks are carried out against rules defined in datasette.yaml , while other custom permissions may be decided by plugins that implement the permission_allowed(datasette, actor, action, resource) plugin hook. \n If neither metadata.json nor any of the plugins provide an answer to the permission query the default argument will be returned. \n See Built-in permissions for a full list of permission actions included in Datasette core.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Internals for plugins\", \"Datasette class\"]", "references": "[]"}