vida wrote:
> After reading the docs and looking for posts relating this problem
> here and in .developers, I found no "standard" way of checking for a
> user's group permissions in the templates.
>
> So what I did is to add the following method to auth.models.User
> (yeah, yeah, it *should* be in appname.models.UserProfile):
>
> def group_permissions(self):
> class GroupPermissions:
> def __init__(self, permissions):
> for perm in permissions:
> setattr(self, perm, True)
>
> def __str__(self):
> return 'The user belongs to the following groups: %s' % \
> ', '.join([k for k, v in self.__dict__.iteritems()])
>
> return GroupPermissions(self.get_group_permissions())
>
>
> which lets me write something like the following in my templates:
> {% if user.group_permissions.permission_name %} draw custom menues for
> this particular group here {% endif %}
>
> So, is there already a way to do this and I missed it? If not, given
> that it is apparently not advisable (is it?) to extend the
> auth.models.User class, how about we add it?
maybe i'm missing something here, but is it really important for you to
use only through-a-group gained permissions?
isn't it enough to simply check for the given permission?
because if it's enough, then simply use the "perms" variable in the
templates.
gabor
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