ACT redesign

[Cafe137]

Desired outcome

The ACT (access control trie) related commands (grantee group) are currently hard to use:

• Rather than having a CRUD command-set for manipulating grantee lists, the existing commands expect a path to a JSON file with a specific structure.
• The grantee lists should be abstracted away, so that I can name and manage them easily, similarly to the identity commands where my settings are saved to the disk and I can rename/edit them freely.
• The dependents (e.g. upload command) should not take both --act and --act-history-address flags; there should be only one flag, with an intuitive name, that takes a named grantee list and automatically gives permission to the grantees there.

Documentation

• Developer docs: https://docs.ethswarm.org/docs/develop/act
• General concept: https://docs.ethswarm.org/docs/concepts/access-control/
• Check grantee.spec.ts for current usage

Prerequisites

• Do a feasibility check whether the current interface and functions provided by bee-js are good enough to work with, or if ACT should be abstracted to a higher level AccessControl or similar class there first.

Rollout strategy

• Rather than removing / reworking the current grantee commands, deprecate them. Running them should print a warning message that the commands will be removed by $date, and the new ??? commands should be used instead.