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django-casbin is an authorization middleware for Django, it's based on PyCasbin.

Installation

pip install casbin

Simple Example

This repo is just a working Django app that shows the usage of django-casbin. To use it in your existing Django app, you need:

MIDDLEWARE = [
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
    'casbin_middleware.middleware.CasbinMiddleware', # Add this line, must after AuthenticationMiddleware.
]
import casbin

def __init__(self, get_response):
    self.get_response = get_response
    # load the casbin model and policy from files.
    # change the 2nd arg to use a database.
    self.enforcer = casbin.Enforcer("casbin_middleware/authz_model.conf", "casbin_middleware/authz_policy.csv")

def check_permission(self, request):
    # change the user, path, method as you need.
    user = request.user.username
    if request.user.is_anonymous:
        user = 'anonymous'
    path = request.path
    method = request.method
    return self.enforcer.enforce(user, path, method)
p, anonymous, /, GET
p, admin, *, *
g, alice, admin

It means anonymous user can only access homepage /. Admin users like alice can access any pages. Currently all accesses are regarded as anonymous. Add your authentication to let a user log in.

Documentation

The authorization determines a request based on {subject, object, action}, which means what subject can perform what action on what object. In this plugin, the meanings are:

  1. subject: the logged-in user name
  2. object: the URL path for the web resource like "dataset1/item1"
  3. action: HTTP method like GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, or the high-level actions you defined like "read-file", "write-blog"

For how to write authorization policy and other details, please refer to the Casbin's documentation.

Getting Help

License

This project is under Apache 2.0 License. See the LICENSE file for the full license text.