Description of the need

A module may want to do something conditional on whether a role has a permission. Other functions can be used in a roundabout way, but this would be simpler.

Proposed solution

A simple function called user_role_has_permission that takes a role name and a permission name and returns a boolean if the role has the permission.

Alternatives that have been considered

For now, I've added this code in my module.

Is there a Drupal or Backdrop contributed module that accomplishes this? no

Additional information

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Draft of feature description for Press Release (1 paragraph at most)

Backdrop now includes an additional function for modules to check whether a user role includes a permission.


PR added at https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop/pull/4486

GitHub Issue #: 
6186