The repoze.what plugin for Django integration

Author:Gustavo Narea (sponsored by 2degrees, Ltd.). Latest release:1.0a1

Extensible authorization system for Django applications.

Overview

repoze.what-django is a package that makes it possible to use the authorization framework repoze.what in Django applications. It doesn’t only play nice with the built-in authorization functionality in Django – It adds many features Django authorization lacks.

If you’re looking for a fully tested, fully documented, widely used, highly extensible and extremely reusable authorization system for your Django applications, this package is for you.

Documentation

• How to install repoze.what-django
  • Installing Django
  • Installing the plugin
• repoze.what-django User’s Manual
  • How the plugin works
  • Creating access rules
    • Using Access Control Lists
    • Enforcing conditions inside a view
    • With a decorator in the views
  • Checking authorization to other resources
  • Authorization denial handlers
• repoze.what.plugins.dj API documentation
  • In-view functions
  • Django-specific predicate checkers
    • Ready to use instances
  • Django middleware
  • Denial handlers

Support and development

The prefered place to ask questions is the Repoze mailing list or the #repoze IRC channel. Bugs reports and feature requests should be sent to the issue tracker of the Repoze project.

The development mainline is available at the following Subversion repository:

http://svn.repoze.org/repoze.what/plugins/django/trunk/

Releases

• repoze.what-django releases
  • Version 1.0 Alpha 1 (unreleased)