Permissions

This integration exposes a field extension to extend fields into using the Django’s Permissioning System for checking for permissions.

It supports protecting any field for cases like:

The user is authenticated
The user is a superuser
The user or a group they belongs to has a given permission
The user or the group they belongs has a given permission to the resolved value
The user or the group they belongs has a given permission to the parent of the field
etc

How it works

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graph TD
  A[Extension Check for Permissions] --> B;
  B[User Passes Checks] -->|Yes| BF[Return Resolved Value];
  B -->|No| C;
  C[Can return 'OperationInfo'?] -->|Yes| CF[Return 'OperationInfo'];
  C -->|No| D;
  D[Field is Optional] -->|Yes| DF[Return 'None'];
  D -->|No| E;
  E[Field is a 'List'] -->|Yes| EF[Return an empty 'List'];
  E -->|No| F;
  F[Field is a relay `Connection`] -->|Yes| FF[Return an empty relay 'Connection'];
  F -->|No| GF[Raises 'PermissionDenied' error];

Example

import strawberry_django
from strawberry_django.permissions import (
    IsAuthenticated,
    HasPerm,
    HasRetvalPerm,
)


@strawberry_django.type
class SomeType:
    login_required_field: RetType = strawberry_django.field(
        # will check if the user is authenticated
        extensions=[IsAuthenticated()],
    )
    perm_required_field: OtherType = strawberry_django.field(
        # will check if the user has `"some_app.some_perm"` permission
        extensions=[HasPerm("some_app.some_perm")],
    )
    obj_perm_required_field: OtherType = strawberry_django.field(
        # will check the permission for the resolved value
        extensions=[HasRetvalPerm("some_app.some_perm")],
    )

Available Options

Available options are:

IsAuthenticated : Checks if the user is authenticated (i.e. user.is_autenticated )
IsStaff : Checks if the user is a staff member (i.e. user.is_staff )
IsSuperuser : Checks if the user is a superuser (i.e. user.is_superuser )
HasPerm(perms: str | list[str], any_perm: bool = True) : Checks if the user has any or all of the given permissions (i.e. user.has_perm(perm) )
HasSourcePerm(perms: str | list[str], any: bool = True) : Checks if the user has any or all of the given permissions for the root of that field (i.e. user.has_perm(perm, root) )
HasRetvalPerm(perms: str | list[str], any: bool = True) : Resolves the retval and then checks if the user has any or all of the given permissions for that specific value (i.e. user.has_perm(perm, retval) ). If the return value is a list, this extension will filter the return value, removing objects that fails the check (check below for more information regarding other possibilities).

Note

The HasSourcePerm and HasRetvalPerm require having an authentication backend which supports resolving object permissions. This lib works out of the box with django-guardian , so if you are using it you don’t need to do anything else.

No Permission Handling

When the condition fails, the following will be returned on the field (following this priority):

OperationInfo /OperationMessage if those types are allowed at the return type
null in case the field is not mandatory (e.g. String or [String] )
An empty list in case the field is a list (e.g. [String]! )
An empty Connection in case the return type is a relay connection
Otherwise, an error will be raised

Custom Permissions Checking

You can create your own permission checking extension by subclassing DjangoPermissionExtension and implementing your own resolve_for_user method.