A enhanced permission system which enable logical permissionsystems to complex permissions
Project description
An enhanced permission library which enable handler based permission system to handle complex permissions in Django.
It is developed based on authentication backend system introduced from django 1.2.
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Installation
Use pip like:
$ pip install "django-permissions>=0.5.0"
Usage
Configuration
Put permission into your INSTALLED_APPS at settings module
INSTALLED_APPS = ( # ... 'permission', )
Add extra authorization backend
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ( 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend', # default 'permission.backends.PermissionBackend', )
Follow the instruction below to apply logical permissions to django models
Apply logical permission
Assume you have an article model which has author attribute to store who creat the article and you want to give the author full controll permissions (e.g. add, change, delete permissions).
What you need to do is just applying permission.logics.AuthorPermissionLogic to the Article model like
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class Article(models.Model):
title = models.CharField('title', max_length=120)
body = models.TextField('body')
author = models.ForeignKey(User)
# this is just required for easy explanation
class Meta:
app_label='permission'
# apply AuthorPermissionLogic
from permission import add_permission_logic
from permission.logics import AuthorPermissionLogic
add_permission_logic(Article, AuthorPermissionLogic())
That’s it. Now the following codes will work as expected
user1 = User.objects.create_user(
username='john',
email='john@test.com',
password='password',
)
user2 = User.objects.create_user(
username='alice',
email='alice@test.com',
password='password',
)
art1 = Article.objects.create(
title="Article 1",
body="foobar hogehoge",
author=user1
)
art2 = Article.objects.create(
title="Article 2",
body="foobar hogehoge",
author=user2
)
assert user1.has_perm('permission.change_article') == False
assert user1.has_perm('permission.change_article', art1) == True
assert user1.has_perm('permission.change_article', art2) == False
assert user2.has_perm('permission.delete_article') == False
assert user2.has_perm('permission.delete_article', art1) == False
assert user2.has_perm('permission.delete_article', art2) == True
See http://django-permission.readthedocs.org/en/latest/_modules/permission/logics/author.html#AuthorPermissionLogic to learn how this logic works.
Now, assume you add collaborators attribute to store collaborators of the article and you want to give them a change permission.
What you need to do is quite simple. Apply permission.logics.CollaboratorsPermissionLogic to the Article model like
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class Article(models.Model):
title = models.CharField('title', max_length=120)
body = models.TextField('body')
author = models.ForeignKey(User)
collaborators = models.ManyToManyField(User)
# this is just required for easy explanation
class Meta:
app_label='permission'
# apply AuthorPermissionLogic and CollaboratorsPermissionLogic
from permission import add_permission_logic
from permission.logics import AuthorPermissionLogic
from permission.logics import CollaboratorsPermissionLogic
add_permission_logic(Article, AuthorPermissionLogic())
add_permission_logic(Article, CollaboratorsPermissionLogic(
field_name='collaborators',
any_permission=False,
change_permission=True,
delete_permission=False,
))
That’s it. Now the following codes will work as expected
user1 = User.objects.create_user(
username='john',
email='john@test.com',
password='password',
)
user2 = User.objects.create_user(
username='alice',
email='alice@test.com',
password='password',
)
art1 = Article.objects.create(
title="Article 1",
body="foobar hogehoge",
author=user1
)
art1.collaborators.add(user2)
assert user1.has_perm('permission.change_article') == False
assert user1.has_perm('permission.change_article', art1) == True
assert user1.has_perm('permission.delete_article', art1) == True
assert user2.has_perm('permission.change_article') == False
assert user2.has_perm('permission.change_article', art1) == True
assert user2.has_perm('permission.delete_article', art1) == False
See http://django-permission.readthedocs.org/en/latest/_modules/permission/logics/collaborators.html#CollaboratorsPermissionLogic to learn how this logic works.
Customize logical permission
Your own permission logic class must be a subclass of permission.logics.PermissionLogic and must override has_perm(user_obj, perm, obj=None) method which return boolean value.
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