package handler import ( "encoding/json" "net/http" "codeberg.org/VARASYS/ZDDC/zddc/internal/policy" ) // writeForbidden emits a 403 JSON response naming the missing verb. Used // at every ACL-deny site so the client-side toast can render a specific // "you need here" message and offer elevation when the path-scoped // /.profile/access?path= reports a would_elevate_grant covering that verb. // // Body shape: // // {"error": "Forbidden", "missing_verb": "w"} // // Existing clients that read the body as text see the JSON string instead // of "Forbidden\n" — both are diagnostic-only display strings, no client // in this repo parses the previous plain-text body for content. Used in // place of `http.Error(w, "Forbidden", http.StatusForbidden)` exclusively // for ACL-deny cases. Other 403 conditions (no authenticated principal, // existence-leak guards, etc.) keep the plain-text variant since // "missing_verb" doesn't apply to them. func writeForbidden(w http.ResponseWriter, action string) { verb := verbForAction(action) body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]string{ "error": "Forbidden", "missing_verb": verb, }) w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8") w.WriteHeader(http.StatusForbidden) _, _ = w.Write(body) } // verbForAction maps a policy.Action constant to its single-character // verb. Mirrors policy.actionVerb but emits the wire-format letter // rather than the bitmask, so the JSON body carries "r"/"w"/"c"/"d"/"a" // — the same alphabet the listing's `verbs` field uses. func verbForAction(action string) string { switch action { case policy.ActionWrite: return "w" case policy.ActionCreate: return "c" case policy.ActionDelete: return "d" case policy.ActionAdmin: return "a" default: return "r" } }