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martmull 85e02f6a4c Record sharing: inherited records follow the parent's complete access policy, in queries and events (#25925)
Follow-up to #25439 and #25914 (both merged), now based on `main`. Two
review findings on the inheritance gate: a parent only asked for a
non-null key or a share row, never for the reader's permission on the
parent object nor their row-level restrictions, so a member blocked from
reading a person by their role still read the person's notes and
attachments through it; and the event path (subscriptions, webhooks,
workflows, logic functions) kept treating every INHERITED record as
open, a second interpretation of the policy next to the SQL one. Inert
until a parent object is PRIVATE and `IS_RECORD_SHARING_ENABLED` is on.

## What changes

- One row access policy builder, `buildRowAccessPolicy`, composes for an
alias the role's permission on the object, its row-level predicate and
the record share gate (OPEN, PRIVATE share rows, INHERITED parents,
SYSTEM and APPLICATION denials). Direct queries go through it for their
root and joined aliases, and so do the column parents and child rows of
an INHERITED object: a gated parent is correlated through the parent row
under that policy, `(fk IS NOT NULL AND EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM parent p
WHERE p.id = fk AND <policy>))`, a denied parent grants nothing. A
parent the reader may not query grants nothing on a child.
- The builder takes a subject, the pieces of an identity the policy
depends on: object permissions, share principals, owning application,
row-level filter. The repository derives it from its auth context; the
object permission predicate moved to a util the query-level validation
shares, so the API keeps reporting a denied root object with the error
it documents.
- `RecordAccessPolicyService` evaluates that policy for a subject
holding no auth context, in SQL on a system-context repository. For an
INHERITED record's events it decides which of the records the event
snapshot points at, and which live child rows point back at it, the
subject may read; the snapshot stands in for the record so a destroyed
one is still decided on. The record's own share rows stay evaluated in
memory as before.
- A deleted record's links are captured with its deletion: a note's
targets are soft-deleted with it and cascade away when it is destroyed,
so the repository reads the child rows an INHERITED record inherits
through before a soft delete or a destroy, and the `deleted` and
`destroyed` events carry them as `inheritedReadabilityChildRecords`, a
server-side transit property stripped before any client payload. The
service evaluates those captured rows as snapshots under the subject's
policy (object permission, row-level filter, the child's own share rows
or parents), so the readers who could see the record through its links
still receive its deletion. Subscriptions and logic functions strip the
capture before handing the event over; webhooks and workflows only ever
took `before` and `after`.
- The query gate applies the same rule to a trashed record: a child link
counts when it is live, or when it was trashed at or after the record
itself. A note soft-deleted with its targets stays visible in the trash,
and restorable, for the readers who saw it live; a target detached
before the deletion still grants nothing.
- A soft delete through the ORM now touches live rows only, unless the
builder opted into `withDeleted`, matching the rows its own snapshot
select already returned. The target cascades restamped targets detached
earlier with the current time, which the rule above would have read as a
link trashed with the note.
- The note and task target hooks, which trash and restore the targets
with their note or task, now run with permission checks bypassed. They
cascade a mutation the actor was already permitted on the parent, and
the repository they built without a role config carried no object
permission at all, which the inherited gate reads as denied on every
parent: with the flag on, they trashed nothing.
- Subjects per consumer: a subscriber's object permissions, principals
and row-level filter; the standard application's default role for
workflows; the application's default role for logic functions; everyone
alone for webhooks, which carry no identity.
`resolveRecordShareGateKind` returns `inherited` for an INHERITED object
and the gate carries the record ids readable through parents next to the
share rows; `isRecordSharedWithPrincipals` became
`isRecordAdmittedByRecordShareGate`.
- The subscription publisher checks that a stream has a query on the
event's object before building its gate, so a batch no longer costs a
parent lookup per stream subscribed to other objects.

## Things to know

- A gated parent now costs one correlated EXISTS on the parent table per
candidate row instead of a share-row lookup keyed by the foreign key,
since the parent's predicate needs the parent row.
- An INHERITED object's events cost, per subject and per batch, one
gated query per parent object and per child object of that batch, and a
soft delete or destroy of such a record costs one read of its child rows
per child object at write time.
- The timeline entries exposing a private linked record's title (#25454)
remain a prerequisite before activation, as does a backfill of share
rows for the notes and tasks that exist unattached before the flag turns
on (they hold no parent and no share row, so the gate would hide them
from everyone).

## Tests

- Unit: `buildRowAccessPolicy` composition (open, denied by object
permission, role predicate alone, share rows, parents under their own
predicate, a parent the subject may not read dropped, owning
application), the condition builder on policy-shaped parents including
the trashed-with-the-record rule, the gate builder on INHERITED, the
gate kind; the mutation builder keeping a soft delete off trashed rows
unless `withDeleted`; the event formatter carrying the captured child
rows on the deleted and destroyed events of their record only; the
publisher skipping the parent lookup for a stream on another object and
stripping the capture from what it broadcasts; the logic function
payload without the capture.
- Integration, in the children spec: a member whose role cannot read
people no longer sees the private person's notes, targets and
attachments through it even with a share row; the event gate resolves,
for the member's subject, exactly the notes the member's query returns;
a note on the private person soft-deleted by the admin (who reaches it
through its company target) has its targets trashed with it, is
unreadable through its live links and readable through the captured
ones, and the admin restores it through the target trashed with it; a
note deleted after one of its targets was detached stays out of the
member's trash. In the note target hooks spec: a target detached before
its note keeps its own deletion time when the note is deleted.
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