Cedar-Py

High-performance Python bindings for Amazon's Cedar authorization policy language, built with Rust and PyO3 for native performance.

⚠️ EXPERIMENTAL: This project is in early development and not yet tested enough for production use. APIs may change without notice.

✨ Features

• 🚀 Native Performance: Rust backend with PyO3 bindings
• 🐍 Pythonic API: Clean, intuitive interface for Python developers
• 🌐 FastAPI Integration: Decorator-based authorization for web apps
• ⚡ Intelligent Caching: Policy-aware LRU caching with 80%+ hit rates
• 🧪 Testing Framework: Fluent API for policy testing and validation
• 🛠️ CLI Tools: Command-line policy management and testing
• 📋 Full Cedar Support: Complete policy language implementation
• 🔒 Type Safety: Strong typing with mypy support

📦 Installation

Note: Not yet on PyPI. Install from source:

Prerequisites

• Python 3.8+
• Rust toolchain (install from rustup.rs)
• UV (recommended) or pip with maturin

Quick Install with UV (Recommended)

# Install UV if not already installed
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# Clone and install
git clone https://github.com/burdettadam/cedar_py.git
cd cedar_py
uv sync --dev
cd rust && uv run maturin develop

Alternative with pip

# Install Rust first
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
source $HOME/.cargo/env

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/burdettadam/cedar_py.git
cd cedar_py

# Install maturin and dependencies
pip install maturin[patchelf]
pip install -e .

# Build Rust extension
cd rust && maturin develop

🚀 Quick Start

Basic Authorization

from cedar_py import Policy, Engine

policy = Policy('permit(principal == User::"alice", action, resource);')
engine = Engine(policy)

if engine.is_authorized('User::"alice"', 'Action::"read"', 'Document::"doc1"'):
    print("✅ Access granted!")

With Intelligent Caching

from cedar_py.engine import CacheConfig

cache_config = CacheConfig.create_enabled(max_size=1000, ttl=300.0)
engine = Engine(policy, cache_config=cache_config)

# 87%+ cache hit rates typical
stats = engine.cache_stats()
print(f"Cache hit rate: {stats.hit_rate * 100:.1f}%")

FastAPI Integration

from fastapi import FastAPI
from cedar_py.integrations.fastapi import authorize

app = FastAPI()

@app.get("/documents/{doc_id}")
@authorize(policy, action="read", resource_template="Document::\"{doc_id}\"")
async def get_document(doc_id: str):
    return {"document_id": doc_id}

Testing Framework

from cedar_py.testing import PolicyTestBuilder

scenarios = (PolicyTestBuilder()
    .given_user("alice", department="engineering")
    .when_accessing("read", "engineering_docs")
    .should_be_allowed("Engineers can read their docs")
    .build_scenarios())

CLI Tools

# Validate policies
python -m cedar_py.cli validate --policy "permit(principal, action, resource);"

# Test policies
python -m cedar_py.cli test --policy-file policies.cedar --test-file scenarios.json

# Convert policies
python -m cedar_py.cli migrate --policy-file input.cedar --output json

🎯 Running Demos

After installation, explore the demos:

# Basic usage demonstration
python examples/basic_usage.py

# All modern features (caching, testing, CLI)
python scripts/demo_improvements.py

# FastAPI web application
python examples/applications/fastapi_document_management.py

# Performance benchmarks
python examples/benchmark.py

# CLI tools demo
python scripts/demo_cli_tools.py

🏗️ Architecture

• Rust Layer: Direct Cedar native implementation bindings
• Python Layer: Pythonic wrapper with caching and integrations
• Performance: ~0.001s authorization with caching, 80-90% hit rates
• Concurrency: Thread-safe with async support

🧪 Development

# Development setup
uv sync --dev
cd rust && uv run maturin develop --release

# Run tests
pytest tests/ -v --cov=cedar_py

# Quality checks
./scripts/quality-check.sh

# Test installation
python -c "from cedar_py import Policy, Engine; print('✅ Working!')"

📊 Performance

Scenario	Without Cache	With Cache	Improvement
Simple authorization	~0.01ms	~0.001ms	10x faster
Entity-based	~0.05ms	~0.005ms	10x faster
1000 concurrent requests	~1.2s	~0.15s	8x faster

🤝 Contributing

Contributions welcome! Recent additions include FastAPI integration, intelligent caching, testing framework, and CLI tools.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

📄 License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

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Cedar-Py brings Amazon's Cedar authorization to Python with native performance and modern framework integrations.