Subject

Everything in PermissionsEx is based around the subject. A subject is a user, group, server console, irc bot, or any other object that has permissions access. Each subject is composed of segments which each have a set of permissions, options, and inheritance that are active when the segment's set of parameters matches.

Permissions

Permissions exist in a tree structure where each node has a weighting. A permission is split by the . character, and each segment can be set to a value.

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Options

Options are a simple key-value mapping. When multiple locations

Parents

Any subject can inherit from any other subject.

Contexts

Contexts are tags that can be applied to a segment that restrict the segment's applicability to a certain player state. Sponge provides several contexts and PermissionsEx applies a few more, but any plugin can add its own contexts (for example a region protection plugin could add a region context to allow for region-specific permissions). When PermissionsEx calculates permissions for a set of active contexts, any segment whose set of contexts is a subset of the subject's active contexts will be considered.

PermissionsEx Contexts

Context Key	Example Value	Description
server-tag	creative	Tags applied to the current server (in permissionsex.conf)
before-time	2020-07-01T08:00:00	Only active before this time
after-time	2008-04-01T00:00:00	Only active after the provided time

Time formats

When using before-time and after-time, PermissionsEx supports a variety of formats:

• ISO Date Time: 2011-12-03T10:15:30 or 2011-12-03T10:15:30+01:00 or 2011-12-03T10:15:30+01:00[Europe/Paris]

• ISO Time Relative to Today: 10:15 or 10:15:30 or 10:15:30+01:00

• ISO Date: 2011-12-03 2011-12-03+01:00

• RFC 1123: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:05:30 GMT

• PermissionsEx Relative Time Format: +1d2h-3m (more on this later)

• Seconds since Epoch: 1578779386573

PermissionsEx Relative Time Format

Times in PermissionsEx can be expressed in terms of the current time. The format is as follows:

• A leading sign (+ or -)

• Quantity (such as 2)

• Unit (such as m for minute)

A relative time must always begin with a sign, however the same sign will be used until a new one is specified before a later quantity.

Here is a table of the current supported units:

• Seconds: second, seconds, s

• Minutes: minute, minutes, m

• Hours: hour, hours, h

• Days: day, days, d

• Weeks: week, weeks, w

• Months: month, months

• Years: year, years

For example, to express 3 days from now, the following can be used: +3d

2 days, 4 minutes less 16 seconds can be expressed in the following way: +2d4m-16s

In this way, administrators will be able to easily specify times relative to the current time.