Am trying to enable my website users block other users they don't want again as friends just like we can on Facebook. I decided to implement it with Django guardian. when a user clicks a button, a view(block_user_view) is called and the profile the user wants to block is added to group which is assigned a custom permission i created(cant_view_profile). But i always get this error "permission matching query doesn't exist". I can assign these permissions from the admin panel but it runs into error when i try it from my views. I don't know of other ways to actualize this functionality with Django.
this is my view
def block_user_view(request, id):
if request.method == "POST":
grouped = Group.objects.get(name="blockedusers")
friend = Profile.objects.get(id = id)
user = request.user
assign_perm("cant_view_profile", grouped, user)
friend.groups.add(grouped)
print(friend.has_perm("cant_view_profile", user))
return render(request, "profiles/blockuser.html", {})
my model
class Profile(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete= models.CASCADE)
prof_pics = models.ImageField(null = True, blank =True, upload_to= 'images/')
friends = models.ManyToManyField(User, blank=True, related_name="friend" )
bio = models.TextField(blank= True)
group = models.ManyToManyField(Group, blank=True,)
def __str__(self):
return str(self.user)
class Meta:
permissions = [("cant_view_profile","cant view profile")]
