Need to check if user has a permission via one of their roles

[salamwaddah]

I am trying to prevent attaching a permission directly to a user if they have said permission via one of their roles and hasPermissionViaRole method in HasPermissions trait does exactly that but it's proctected. My User models uses HasRoles trait which uses HasPermissions trait.

Code in controller

if ($user->hasPermissionViaRole($permission)) {
  // do not allow attaching permission directly
}

Gives this error

BadMethodCallException: Call to undefined method User::hasPermissionViaRole()

Question

Any reason hasPermissionViaRole method is protected? Similar discussions related to this method suggested I should just override it in the User model.

[erikn69]

just override it in the User model or make a PR to change it

[drbyte]

Also, hasPermissionTo() checks both permissions-via-roles and direct permissions.
So, you could just call that to see whether the user already has the permission.

[salamwaddah]

I understand that, I wanted to explicitly check for inherited permissions. I choose to override the protected method.