Permission_required decorator not working on view in Django

Asked Jul 02 '20 at 04:52

Active Jul 02 '20 at 05:21

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I have an model called client, and a group called managers that has the permission "can view clients" granted in Django admin.

I have a view using the permission_required decorator like so:

@permission_required('client.view_client', raise_exception=True)

Originally I had it as

@permission_required('client.can_view', raise_exception=True)

which also fails.

When logged in as a user who is a member of group managers, I am unable to access the view as I get a 403 Forbidden message.

Why is this? If the user is a member of the group with the appropriate permission, why is access not authorized?

edited Jul 02 '20 at 05:21

asked Jul 02 '20 at 04:52

Jake Rankin

`'.'` (e.g. polls.can_vote for the can_vote permission on a model in the polls *application*. You need to specify the app's name, not the model's name – Pynchia Jul 02 '20 at 05:10
@Pynchia That's actually what I had it as originally. I had it set as `client.can_view` but I changed it as while searching I thought the way I have it now was correct. Either way results in a forbidden error. – Jake Rankin Jul 02 '20 at 05:12
Is your view a function or a CBV? – Pynchia Jul 02 '20 at 05:21
@Pynchia function – Jake Rankin Jul 02 '20 at 05:21

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