Installation

Flask-Allows is available on pypi and installable with:

pip install flask-allows

Flask Allows supports 2.7, and 3.4+. Support for 3.3 was ended in the version 0.3 release.

More Information

• For more information, please visit the documentation.

• Found a bug, have a question, or want to request a feature? Here is our issue tracker.

• Need the source code? Here is the repository

Version 0.7.1 (2018-10-03)

• Added requirement name to deprecation message to make tracking down user-only requirements warnings easier.

Version 0.7 (2018-09-03)

• Added flask_allows.view.guard_entire and flask_allows.views.exempt_from_requirements to make protecting entire blueprints easier.

• Added __all__ export markers to flask_allows modules to prevent accidental re-export of other symbols when using from flask_allows.module import *

Version 0.6 (2018-05-26)

• Permission no longer needs an application context for construction but does require one for evaluation now.

• Added Allows.run a public helper that performs the complete fulfill and fail cycle. This cleans up the duplication between Allows.requires, requires and Permission.__enter__

• Removed Permission.throw_type

• Removed PermissionedView, PermissionedMethodView

• Added ability to disable requirements already registered on routes and inside handlers via the flask_allows.overrides.OverrideManager class

• Added ability to add more requirements to be run during checks on routes and other handlers via the flask_allows.additional.AdditionalManager class

Version 0.5.1 (2018-04-22)

• Added wants_request to ease transition to user only requirements

Version 0.5 (2018-04-17)

• Real documentation

• Accepting request in requirements is now deprecated, pending removal in 1.0

• Promoted internal _allows context local to part of the public interface

• Bug Fix: ConditionalRequirement returned False when no requirements were provided

  it now returns True and mimics the behavior of all better

Version 0.4 (2017-08-29)

• Clarify deprecation message for PermissionedView, will be removed in 0.6

• Deprecate Permission.throw_type for 0.6 removak

• Add optional on_fail for allows.requires and requires decoration

• Fix coverage path problem with local testing

Version 0.3.2 (2017-08-29)

• Fix package data not being included

Version 0.3.1 (2017-08-20)

• Fix error that prevent sdist builds on 2.7

Version 0.3 (2017-08-20)

• Drop official support for Python 3.3

• Deprecate implicit decoration on class based views via the requirements attribute