group_required decorator

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from django.contrib.auth.decorators import user_passes_test

def group_required(*group_names):
    """Requires user membership in at least one of the groups passed in."""
    def in_groups(u):
        if u.is_authenticated():
            if bool(u.groups.filter(name__in=group_names)) | u.is_superuser:
                return True
        return False
    return user_passes_test(in_groups)

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Comments

mapcuk (on February 25, 2010):

For using it in urls.py shoud write

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^$',
        group_required(['root', 'manager'])(views.admin),
        name='admin'),
...

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bradbeattie (on May 8, 2013):

Avoid a potentially unnecessary database hit by swapping the position of is_superuser and the groups.filter.

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