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🎯 Today’s Goal

My goal today is to strengthen the identity and authorization infrastructure, make role and scope management more flexible and sustainable. I plan to complete the new UserRoleEntity and related services, move security filters to a centralized structure, and improve authorization controls. Additionally, reviewing the existing structure to make the architecture more robust is among my goals.

✅ What I Did

• Created the new UserRoleEntity and completed the necessary DTOs, Mappers, and configurations.
• Added fields like IsSystemRole, ParentRoleRef, and Priority to RoleEntity.
• Expanded repository and service layers; wrote IUserRoleRepository, IUserRoleService, and their implementations.
• Defined new Scopes and Roles static classes and updated authorization controls.
• Added RequireScopeAttribute and RequireAnyScopeAttribute.
• Created ICurrentUserService and integrated it into all repositories.
• Improved security and filtering in data access with the AsQueryableStrict method.
• Removed SearchQueryBuilderExtensions.WithSecurityFilter for a cleaner structure.
• Added RoleSeedService and ExpireUserRolesWorker.
• Updated UserService.CreateAsync and SignIn methods to improve claims management.
• Completed end-to-end manual tests after all these steps.
• Made a surprise decision and purchased the buildopen.dev domain ⌛
• Did some research on Hugo 😱

🔄 For Tomorrow

• Review missing details on the authorization and identity side.
• Test the new role and scope structures in different scenarios.
• Plan for more complex authorization rules on scope and role management.
• Continue configuration and deployment work on the blog side.

💡 Thoughts

The steps I took today strengthened the backbone of the identity and authorization infrastructure. With the role and scope management becoming dynamic, the system became much more secure, flexible, and extensible. Tighter security controls in data access were provided with ICurrentUserService and AsQueryableStrict. These steps will ensure that future developments progress on a much more solid foundation. Tomorrow, my priority will be to further mature this foundation and complete the missing details.

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