GitPedia

Authz

gin-authz is an authorization middleware for Gin

From gin-contrib·Updated June 26, 2026·View on GitHub·

Authz is an authorization middleware for [Gin](https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin), it's based on [https://github.com/casbin/casbin](https://github.com/casbin/casbin). The project is written primarily in Go, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2017. Key topics include: casbin, gin, gin-gonic.

Latest release: v1.0.7
March 28, 2026View Changelog →

Authz

CodeQL
Run Tests
Trivy Security Scan
codecov
Go Report Card
GoDoc

Authz is an authorization middleware for Gin, it's based on https://github.com/casbin/casbin.

Installation

bash
go get github.com/gin-contrib/authz

Simple Example

Go
package main import ( "net/http" "github.com/casbin/casbin/v2" "github.com/gin-contrib/authz" "github.com/gin-gonic/gin" ) func main() { // load the casbin model and policy from files, database is also supported. e := casbin.NewEnforcer("authz_model.conf", "authz_policy.csv") // define your router, and use the Casbin authz middleware. // the access that is denied by authz will return HTTP 403 error. router := gin.New() router.Use(authz.NewAuthorizer(e)) }

Documentation

The authorization determines a request based on {subject, object, action}, which means what subject can perform what action on what object. In this plugin, the meanings are:

  1. subject: the logged-on user name
  2. object: the URL path for the web resource like "dataset1/item1"
  3. action: HTTP method like GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, or the high-level actions you defined like "read-file", "write-blog"

For how to write authorization policy and other details, please refer to the Casbin's documentation.

Getting Help

License

This project is under MIT License. See the LICENSE file for the full license text.

Contributors

Showing top 5 contributors by commit count.

View all contributors on GitHub →

This article is auto-generated from gin-contrib/authz via the GitHub API.Last fetched: 6/29/2026