Hints, tips and tricksΒΆ

Within a permission class, you can refer to the user and group using self:

class CampaignPermission(permissions.BasePermission):
    label = 'campaign_permission'
    checks = ('do_foo',)

    def do_foo(self, campaign=None):
        print self.user
        print self.group
        # ...

You can unregister permission classes and re-register them:

authority.unregister(Campaign)
authority.register(Campaign, CampaignPermission)

Within a permission class, you can refer to Django’s basic permissions:

class FlagpagePermisson(permissions.BasePermission):
    label = 'flatpage_permission'
    checks = ('do_foo',)

    def do_foo(self, campaign=None):
        if foo and self.change_flatpage():
            # ...

authority.register(Flatpage, FlagpagePermisson)

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