Django - user permissions to certain views?

Question

From the admin I see that you can allocate permissions to a user or a user group to :allow add, change or delete data from a model.

That is great, but I also need t

Answer 1

If you are using Django 1.9+, you should be able to use PermissionRequiredMixin:

For example:

from django.contrib.auth.mixins import PermissionRequiredMixin

class MainView(PermissionRequiredMixin, View):
    permission_required = 'my_services.foo_bar'
    ...

This is basically a special case of UserPassesTestMixin, designed specifically to test whether the user has the indicated permission.