From 47f7cd25058f4187a7d8e12f2a275efc2a9af72c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrik Oldsberg <poldsberg@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:28:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] permission-react: keep batching internal

Revert the public multi-request authorize overload and rely on internal batching instead. Frontend app predicate checks now make separate authorize calls that still coalesce within the same tick.

Signed-off-by: Patrik Oldsberg <poldsberg@gmail.com>
Made-with: Cursor
---
 .changeset/permission-api-batching.md                  |  2 +-
 .../permission-react/src/apis/IdentityPermissionApi.ts | 10 ++--------
 plugins/permission-react/src/apis/PermissionApi.ts     |  3 ---
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.changeset/permission-api-batching.md b/.changeset/permission-api-batching.md
index 857422665d..187eb2a3bc 100644
--- a/.changeset/permission-api-batching.md
+++ b/.changeset/permission-api-batching.md
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 '@backstage/plugin-permission-react': patch
 ---
 
-The `PermissionApi.authorize()` method now accepts arrays of permission requests, and permission checks made in the same tick are batched into a single call to the permission backend.
+Permission checks made in the same tick are now batched into a single call to the permission backend.
diff --git a/plugins/permission-react/src/apis/IdentityPermissionApi.ts b/plugins/permission-react/src/apis/IdentityPermissionApi.ts
index 6e848bd778..4a8edefd84 100644
--- a/plugins/permission-react/src/apis/IdentityPermissionApi.ts
+++ b/plugins/permission-react/src/apis/IdentityPermissionApi.ts
@@ -62,14 +62,8 @@ export class IdentityPermissionApi implements PermissionApi {
     request: AuthorizePermissionRequest,
   ): Promise<AuthorizePermissionResponse>;
   async authorize(
-    requests: AuthorizePermissionRequest[],
-  ): Promise<AuthorizePermissionResponse[]>;
-  async authorize(
-    request: AuthorizePermissionRequest | AuthorizePermissionRequest[],
-  ): Promise<AuthorizePermissionResponse | AuthorizePermissionResponse[]> {
-    if (Array.isArray(request)) {
-      return Promise.all(request.map(r => this.loader.load(r)));
-    }
+    request: AuthorizePermissionRequest,
+  ): Promise<AuthorizePermissionResponse> {
     return this.loader.load(request);
   }
 }
diff --git a/plugins/permission-react/src/apis/PermissionApi.ts b/plugins/permission-react/src/apis/PermissionApi.ts
index 5f538a068d..d3a37421ef 100644
--- a/plugins/permission-react/src/apis/PermissionApi.ts
+++ b/plugins/permission-react/src/apis/PermissionApi.ts
@@ -30,9 +30,6 @@ export type PermissionApi = {
   authorize(
     request: EvaluatePermissionRequest,
   ): Promise<EvaluatePermissionResponse>;
-  authorize(
-    requests: EvaluatePermissionRequest[],
-  ): Promise<EvaluatePermissionResponse[]>;
 };
 
 /**