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Python Django Authentication Users and Authorization Custom Permission

Jovan Dandridge
Jovan Dandridge
12,835 Points

What am i missing?

trying and trying but cant seem to figure out

products/models.py
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.db import models


class Product(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    description = models.TextField()
    price = models.DecimalField()
    discount = models.DecimalField(blank=True, null=True)



    def __str__(self):
        return self.name

    def get_absolute_url(self):
        return reverse("products:detail", kwargs={"pk": self.pk})

    class Meta:
        permissions = (
            ("can_give_discount", "give discounts"),
        )
products/views.py
from django.contrib.auth.mixins import LoginRequiredMixin
from django.views import generic
from django.contrib.auth import has_perm

from . import models


class List(generic.ListView):
    model = models.Product


class Detail(generic.DetailView):
    model = models.Product


class Create(LoginRequiredMixin, generic.CreateView):
    fields = ("name", "description", "discount", "price")
    model = models.Product

    def form_valid(self, form):
        user = self.request.user
        if not user.has_perm('products.can_give_discount'):
            self.object.discount = 0
        self.object.save()
        return super(form_valid, self).form_valid(form)

2 Answers

Chris Freeman
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Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points

There are two errors in your code:

:point_right: Before the if statement, define the self.object:

        self.object = form.save(commit=False)  # <-- create self.object to modify

:point_right: Call the parent class from super() not the method:

        return super(Create, self).form_valid(form)  # <-- refer to the parent class

Otherwise, your code will pass. Post back if you need more help. Good Luck!!

Adam Cameron
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Adam Cameron
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 16,731 Points

Chris Freeman , I'm really late to this party but can you explain why it's "products..." in the call to has_perm()? Intuitively it seems it would be models.Product.can_give_discount or something. What explains "products"?

Adam Cameron
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Adam Cameron
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 16,731 Points

Just occurred to me that permissions may be a kind of app-level thing and that's why you have to invoke it that way. Can you confirm if that's the case/let me know what I'm missing?

Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points

The has_perm() is part of the Django built-in permissions system.

"When django.contrib.auth is listed in your INSTALLED_APPS setting, it will ensure that three default permissions – add, change and delete – are created for each Django model defined in one of your installed applications"