🔖 Adonis5 Audit

Audit lucid models with Adonisjs V5 easily with a Mixin !! After setup, everthing you need its call your models as following:

public async store(ctx: HttpContextContract) {
  await currentMyModel.save({ ctx }) // need HttpContext for IP and auth.user
}

Table of contents

• 🔖 Adonis5 Audit
  • Installation
  • How to Use
    • Auditing models
    • Auditing Custom Events
  • Sample Files
    • Migration for Audit Table
    • Model for Audit Creation
  • FAQ
    • Why not use ALS inside plugin ?

Installation

1. Install the package:

   npm i adonis5-audit
   

2. Copy migration file and register provider to your project with adonis command:

   node ace invoke adonis5-audit
   # or
   node ace configure adonis5-audit
   

3. Define your Audit model as the repo sample ./templates/Audit.txt with Audit model you could embend some behavior that will be used during auditing operations.

4. Add it on your models importing and using with the composition as below:

// app/Models/MyModel
// you need this to extend your models
import { compose } from '@ioc:Adonis/Core/Helpers'
import { Audit } from '@ioc:Adonis/Addons/AuditMixin'
import { compose } from '@ioc:Adonis/Core/Helpers'


export default class MyModel extends compose(BaseModel, Audit) {
    // ... your custom model awesome implementation
}

How to use

Audit your model from anywhere sending the "ctx" object with HttpContext since ALS don't works properly inside the mixin (see the section Why not use ALS inside plugin ?)

> You could use HttpContext.get() from ALS to get current request ctx and pass it explicitly to ensure that your request info its correctly

Auditing models

export default class MyModelsController {

  public async store(ctx: HttpContextContract) {
    const { request } = ctx
    const currentMyModel = new MyModel()
    currentMyModel.cleanAndMerge(request.body()) // <= custom Code ehehe

    await currentMyModel.save({ ctx })
    // This will make an "create" audit since model was not saved before
    await currentMyModel.load('storehouse')
    return currentMyModel
  }

  public async update(ctx: HttpContextContract) {
    const { request } = ctx
    const currentMyModel = await MyModel.findOrFail(request.params().id)
    await currentMyModel.cleanAndMerge(request.body()) // <= custom Code ehehe

    await currentMyModel.save({ ctx })
    // This will make an "update" audit since Model allready Saved before save() call
    return currentMyModel
  }

  public async destroy(ctx: HttpContextContract) {
   const { request } = ctx // <= We need the ctx here because the lib use it to log IP Addresses, User and more !
   const myModelInstance = await MyModel.findOrFail(request.params().id)
   await myModelInstance.delete({ ctx })
   // this will make a "delete" audit when delete() call
   return myModelInstance
  }
}

Auditing Custom Events

import { auditCustom } from '@ioc:Adonis/Addons/AuditMixin'
// we recommend define your app custom events
// in some centralized file as Enum
// this will ensure dont have event name change
import { CustomAuditEvents } from 'App/Types/AuditEvents'

// the following code will create your custom event .toString()


await auditCustom({
  ctx: httpContext, // current HttpContext to write user info
  event: "event-name", // custom event name
  auditable_id: 1, // audited entity id
  auditable: 'Manifest', // audited entity name
  data: vehicleTypeFound.toJSON(), // Object data to be audited at new_data field
})

Sample Files

Migration

import BaseSchema from '@ioc:Adonis/Lucid/Schema'
export default class Audits extends BaseSchema {
  protected tableName = 'audits'

  public async up() {
    this.schema.createTable(this.tableName, (table) => {
      table.increments('id')

      // User id from ctx auth obj
      table.integer('user_id').unsigned().nullable()
      // User Model Name
      table.string('user_entity_name').defaultTo('users')
      // Entity Id
      table.string('auditable_id').nullable()
      // Entity Name
      table.string('auditable').nullable()
      // Event name saved
      table.string('event').nullable()
      // IP from ctx
      table.string('ip').nullable()
      // URL request from ctx
      table.string('url').nullable()
      // Data Before
      table.json('old_data').nullable()
      // Data After
      table.json('new_data').nullable()

      table.timestamp('deleted_at', { useTz: true }).nullable().defaultTo(null)
      table.timestamps(true, true)
    })
  }

  public async down() {
    this.schema.dropTable(this.tableName)
  }
}

Model

import { BaseModel, BelongsTo, belongsTo, column } from '@ioc:Adonis/Lucid/Orm'
import { DateTime } from 'luxon'

import User from './User'

export default class Audit extends BaseModel {
  @column({ isPrimary: true })
  public id: number

  @column()
  public userId: number | null = null
  /** User Id */
  @belongsTo(() => User, {
    foreignKey: 'userId',
  })
  public user: BelongsTo

  /** Entity Id */
  @column()
  public auditableId: string | null

  /** Entity Name */
  @column()
  public auditable: string | null

  /** Event Name */
  @column()
  public event: string

  /** IP from CTX */
  @column()
  public ip: string | null

  /** URL from CTX */
  @column()
  public url: string | null

  /** toJson() Data before*/
  @column()
  public oldData: any

  /** toJson() Data After*/
  @column()
  public newData: any

  @column.dateTime({ autoCreate: true })
  public createdAt: DateTime

  @column.dateTime({ autoCreate: true, autoUpdate: true })
  public updatedAt: DateTime
}

FAQ

Why not use ALS inside plugin ?

Simple, it doesn't works with mixins !

The idea its do the following:

• Enable ALS (Async Local Storage) with the config below, this will allow us get current context in request function call, with this the lib can get current User, IP Address and Http Route during audit.

  Enabling ALS

  To use ALS within your apps, you must enable it first inside the /config/app.ts file. Feel free to create the property manually if it doesn't exist./config/app.ts:

  export const https: ServerConfig = {
    useAsyncLocalStorage: true,
  }
  

But it don't work with mixins since the HttpContext.get() by some reason lose the request reference making impossible return some context value. but yout still can use it from other app locations.

How to commit in this repo ?

> ✨ feat(mixin): implement new mixin behaviour

This repo contain emojis for commits you can simply call npm run cma and it will stage everthing and ask for the emojis and description of commit.