In-Memory

The In-Memory backend stores the policies in RAM and is the default storage used. The usage is as shown below:

from py_abac.storage.memory import MemoryStorage

# In-Memory storage
storage = MemoryStorage()

# Retrieve policy with UID 1
policy = storage.get("1")

Important

Currently the In-Memory storage returns all policies for evaluation by PDP. In the future indexing will be added for filtering of policies to improve lookup efficiency.

Important

It should be noted that the In-Memory backend does not persist policies and thus there is a risk of losing all policies on system restarts.