unexpected result from auth()->user()->can('[permission-name]')

[mahmoudsabryksi]

I have created a user with the role "Cashier" and this role contains a list of permissions when I try to check about certain permission it gives me "false" while I tried to list all of the user permissions I found the permission I checked for

[parallels999]

Refresh spatie cache, check guard_name

[parallels999]

instead of $user->can('1') || $user->can('2') you could use canAny, $user->canAny('1', '2')
also on blade @canany

[mahmoudsabryksi]

Thanks for your answer but can or canAny and @canany are not working either also I have Refresh spatie cache, check guard_name but still same output

[parallels999]

the advice was not to solve the problem, just for less code and better readability

[drbyte]

can() proxies to hasPermissionTo() but does a lookup based on the user's active guard and tries to find a permission for that guard and then checks whether the user has been granted that permission either directly or through a role.

So, like @parallels999 said, clearing the cache and inspecting your guards is a good place to start.

Further, you can replace can() with hasPermissionTo() and see whether the results change.

[mahmoudsabryksi]

thanks for your answer, can() and hasPermissionTo() return the same output false as long as adding a guard name to it

[mahmoudsabryksi]

If I check all permission given to users through direct permissions. "can and hasPermissionTo" works fine
I think there is no check for all permissions given to users through role or direct permissions, I should do it by myself

[drbyte]

I think there is no check for all permissions given to users through role or direct permissions,

You can see here that the hasPermissionTo() function checks both direct permissions and permissions via roles:

laravel-permission/src/Traits/HasPermissions.php

Lines 225 to 234 in 2cc68fd

	public function hasPermissionTo($permission, $guardName = null): bool
	{
	if ($this->getWildcardClass()) {
	return $this->hasWildcardPermission($permission, $guardName);
	}
	$permission = $this->filterPermission($permission, $guardName);
	return $this->hasDirectPermission($permission) || $this->hasPermissionViaRole($permission);
	}

And calling can calls Laravel's Gate, which calls checkPermissionTo() which is a proxy to hasPermissionTo() (which bypasses any "permission not found" errors):

laravel-permission/src/PermissionRegistrar.php

Lines 119 to 132 in 2cc68fd

	/**
	* Register the permission check method on the gate.
	* We resolve the Gate fresh here, for benefit of long-running instances.
	*/
	public function registerPermissions(Gate $gate): bool
	{
	$gate->before(function (Authorizable $user, string $ability) {
	if (method_exists($user, 'checkPermissionTo')) {
	return $user->checkPermissionTo($ability) ?: null;
	}
	});
	return true;
	}

laravel-permission/src/Traits/HasPermissions.php

Lines 275 to 282 in 2cc68fd

	public function checkPermissionTo($permission, $guardName = null): bool
	{
	try {
	return $this->hasPermissionTo($permission, $guardName);
	} catch (PermissionDoesNotExist $e) {
	return false;
	}
	}

[mahmoudsabryksi]

thanks, Drbyte for your help, By the way, my issue was on overriding role and permission models in wrong way I have fixed the overriding issue