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Flexible ability to add action permissions on view level for Django REST framework. Permissions can be as complex or simple as you want. It can be a plain string or a function.

Requirements

  • Python (3.6+)
  • Django (1.11.x, 2.0+)
  • Django REST Framework (3.7+)

Installation

$ pip install drf-common-exceptions

You cound define common permissions class for whole project:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    ...
    "DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES": (
        "drf_action_permissions.DjangoActionPermissions",
    )
    ...
}

Or use it just for particular viewset in combination with others:

from rest_framework.permissions import IsAuthenticated
from rest_framework.viewsets import ModelViewSet

from drf_action_permissions import DjangoActionPermissions

class MyView(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    permission_classes = (IsAuthenticated, DjangoActionPermissions)
    perms_map_action = {
        'retrieve': ['users.view_user'],
    }

Usage examples

Permission as string template or plain string:

class PostViewSet(ModelViewSet):
    permission_classes = (IsAuthenticated, DjangoActionPermissions)
    perms_map_action = {
        'likes': ['%(app_label)s.view_%(model_name)s_list',
                  '%(app_label)s.view_like_list'],
    }

Permission as function with current object access:

def can_view_application(user, _view, obj):
    """Can view only archived applications."""
    if obj.is_archived:
        return user.has_perm('applications.view_archived_application')
    return user.has_perm('applications.view_application')


class ApplicationView(ModelViewSet):
    permission_classes = (IsAuthenticated, DjangoActionPermissions)
    perms_map_action_obj = {
        'retrieve': [can_view_application],
    }

Development

Install poetry and requirements:

$ curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdispater/poetry/master/get-poetry.py | python
$ python3 -m venv path/to/venv
$ source path/to/venv/bin/activate
$ poetry install

Run main commands:

$ make test
$ make watch
$ make clean
$ make lint

Publish to pypi by default patch version:

$ make publish

or any level you want:

$ make publish minor