Group-based permissions in Django - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to import the Group model from Django's auth module.

Django

from django.contrib.auth.models import [1]

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AUser

BPermission

CGroup

DAdmin

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Common Mistakes

Importing User instead of Group

Using incorrect module for Group

Misspelling the model name

The Group model is imported from django.contrib.auth.models to manage group-based permissions.

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medium

Complete the code to create a new group named 'Editors'.

Django

new_group = Group.objects.[1](name='Editors')

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Acreate

Bget

Cfilter

Dall

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Common Mistakes

Using filter which returns a queryset

Using get which retrieves existing objects

Using all which returns all objects

The create method creates and saves a new group with the given name.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to add a user to a group.

Django

user.groups.[1](group)

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Aremove

Badd

Cinsert

Dappend

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Common Mistakes

Using append which is not a Django queryset method

Using remove which deletes a relation

Using insert which is not valid here

The add method is used to add a group to the user's groups many-to-many relation.

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hard

Fill both blanks to check if a user belongs to the 'Admins' group.

Django

if user.groups.filter(name=[1]).[2]():
    print('User is an admin')

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A'Admins'

Bexists

Ccount

D'Editors'

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Common Mistakes

Using count() which returns a number instead of a boolean

Using wrong group name string

Omitting quotes around the group name

The filter method filters groups by name, and exists() checks if any such group exists for the user.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to assign the 'change_article' permission to the 'Editors' group.

Django

permission = Permission.objects.get(codename=[1])
group = Group.objects.get(name=[2])
group.permissions.[3](permission)

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A'change_article'

B'Editors'

Cadd

Dremove

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Common Mistakes

Using wrong codename string

Using wrong group name string

Using remove instead of add

We get the permission by its codename, get the group by name, then add the permission to the group's permissions.