Django rest frameowrk : Prevent one user from deleting/Editing/Viewing other users in ModelViewSet-CodePudding

I was using Django users model for my Django rest framework. For this I used Django's ModelViewSet for my User class.

class UserViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    queryset = User.objects.all()
    serializer_class = UserSerializer

Serializers.py

class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ['id', 'username', 'password']

        extra_kwargs = {
            'password' : {
                'write_only':True,
                'required': True
            }
        }
    
    def create(self, validated_data):
        user = User.objects.create_user(**validated_data)
        Token.objects.create(user=user) # create token for the user
        return user

But currently from postman when I make the request using the token of one user to view, delete, edit other users

http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/users/4/

Its able to edit/delete/view other users. I don't want that to happen and one user can make request on itself only is all I want.

This is my apps urls.py

urls.py

from django.urls import path, include
from .views import ArticleViewSet, UserViewSet
from rest_framework.routers import DefaultRouter


router = DefaultRouter()
router.register('articles', ArticleViewSet, basename='articles')
router.register('users', UserViewSet, basename = 'users')


urlpatterns = [
    path('api/', include(router.urls)), 
]

How can I prevent one user from accessing other users when they make GET/POST/PUT/DELETE request.

CodePudding user response：

If you want to disable delete completely (Which is probably correct since if you want to "delete" a User you should deactivate it instead.) Then you can replace your view with this:

from rest_framework import viewsets
from rest_framework import generics

class UserViewSet(
    generics.CreateModelMixin,
    generics.ListModelMixin,
    generics.RetrieveModelMixin,
    generics.UpdateModelMixin,
    generics.viewsets.GenericViewSet
):
    queryset = User.objects.all()
    serializer_class = UserSerializer

And then you can use Ene Paul's answer to limit who can edit.

CodePudding user response：

Create a file named permissions.py.

from rest_framework import permissions


class IsOwnerOfObject(permissions.BasePermission):
    def has_object_permission(self, request, view, obj):

        return obj == request.user

next add the permission class to you ModelViewSet:

from yourapp.permissions import IsOwnerOfObject

class UserViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    queryset = User.objects.all()
    serializer_class = UserSerializer

    permission_classes = [IsOwnerOfObject, <other permission classes you want to use>]

More info here: https://www.django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions/#object-level-permissions