django-object-permissions 1.4.3

Installation

There are several ways to install Object Permissions.

Object Permissions ships a standard distutils setup.py. A classic invocation to install from setup.py might be:

$ python setup.py install

You may need to add sudo in order to install to the system Python.

$ sudo python setup.py install

We also have Object Permissions on PyPI, so it can be installed using pip. (easy_install also works, but we do not recommend easy_install. Just use pip.)

$ pip install django-object-permissions

If you are installing Object Permissions directly into a Django app, and want to distribute Object Permissions with your app, simply copy the object_permissions folder into your Django project.

Configuring Your Django Project

1. Add “object_permissions” to INSTALLED_APPS

2. Add “object_permissions.backend.ObjectPermBackend” to AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS.

3. Run ./manage.py syncdb

if South is enabled for your project you will need to create tables using migrate

3b) Run ./manage.py migrate

Using Object Permissions

First, register some permissions onto a Model in your models.py. This can only be done once per model; see registration.py for more information.

>>> from object_permissions import register
>>> register(['permission'], Model)

Now, that permission can be granted, revoked, or checked for any instance of that Model.

>>> user.grant('permission', object)
>>> user.revoke('permission', object)
>>> user.has_perm('permission', object)
>>> group.grant('permission', object)
>>> group.revoke('permission', object)

Authors

Object Permissions was originally implemented by Peter Krenesky at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL). This release is maintained by Corbin Simpson.