@permission-required argument in django

Question

In a Django project I want to limit viewing of some views to admin (the user for which request.user.is_superuser is True) I know that I must use @permission_required(...) before that view, but what is the argument for this?

Answer 1

Superusers are not handled by permission, they're handled solely by the is_superuser field. You can use the @user_passes_test decorator:

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import user_passes_test

@user_passes_test(lambda u: u.is_active and u.is_superuser)
def my_view(request):
    ...