Support Policy Builder Objects

[dandend]

Category

Other

Describe the feature you'd like to request

It would be helpful and less error prone for building policies on demand if there were native Java PolicyBuilder classes. For example:

Policy conditionalPolicy = PolicyBuilder.builder()
    .effect(Effect.PERMIT)
    .principal(Principal.parse("User::\"bob\""))
    .action(Action.parse("Action::\"write\""))
    .resource(Resource.parse("File::\"report.pdf\""))
    .condition(Condition.when(
        Expression.parse("principal.department == \"engineering\"")
    ))
    .build();

Describe alternatives you've considered

Today when I need to build Cedar policies on demand I either need to use string manipulation or create JSON objects that follow a specific format.

Additional context

Similar policy builder type classes for other policy languages: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-java/latest/developer-guide/feature-iam-policy-builder.html

Is this something that you'd be interested in working on?

• 👋 I may be able to implement this feature request
• ⚠️ This feature might incur a breaking change