A developer shares the frustration of scattered permission checks in the API codebase, proposing a policy-based access system in Python to simplify implementation.
Requirements include the ability to compose different rules, easy integration into existing codebase, and ensuring fast rejection of queries.
Implementation involves decorators for applying access policies, policies for defining access rules, and the use of pre-execution and post-execution checks for efficient access control.
The policy-based access system addresses challenges like scattered permission logic, code duplication, resource-dependent access control, and enhances maintainability.