ocaps

ocaps is a library for working with object capabilities in Scala.

• Revoker / Revocable classes for revoking capabilities.
• Brand for sealing and unsealing capabilities
• RevocableMembrane for revocation as an effect.
• Macros for composition, attenuation, revocable and modulating capabilities.
• No libraries dependencies (other than scala-reflect)

Documentation can be found at https://wsargent.github.io/ocaps/

Examples can be found at http://wsargent.github.io/ocaps/examples/

A guide to object capabilities can be found at http://wsargent.github.io/ocaps/guide/

The ocaps library was presented as part of the Security in Scala presentation at Scaladays NYC 2018. Slides and video are available.

Usage

Add the following to build.sbt

resolvers += Resolver.bintrayRepo("wsargent","maven")

// where latestVersion is defined up top
libraryDependencies += "ocaps" %% "ocaps-core" % latestVersion

Releasing

To release a new version of ocaps:

sbt release

Updating Website

To update the website, change version.sbt so it's the release version and not snapshot (there should be a way to do this automatically) and then do the following:

sbt
> clean 
> makeSite
> previewSite
> ghpagesPushSite