What is 'object_table' and 'object_id' in Acl API?

Question

I am not understanding the meaning of 'object_role' and 'object_id' in ACL API. I was trying to manage ACL using CiviCRM API 3.

Answer 1

Object table is the type of data the ACL is operating on.

For eg: if you want to create an ACL which grants permission for an event - object table, in this case, will be civicrm_event.

Object id is the id of the event to which the permission is applied to. An example of API which uses these two params could be -

$result = civicrm_api3('Acl', 'create', [
  'object_table' => "civicrm_event",
  'object_id' => 2, //event id, 0 for all events.
]);