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Gaston C. Hillar
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Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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Configuring permission policies


Now, we will configure permission policies for the class-based views related to games. We will override the value for the permission_classes class attribute for the GameList and GameDetail classes.

The following lines show the new code for the GameList class in the views.py file. The new lines are highlighted. Don't remove the code we added for the perform_create method for this class. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_chapter_03_04 folder:

class GameList(generics.ListCreateAPIView): 
    queryset = Game.objects.all() 
    serializer_class = GameSerializer 
    name = 'game-list' 
    permission_classes = ( 
        permissions.IsAuthenticatedOrReadOnly, 
        IsOwnerOrReadOnly, 
        )

The following lines show the new code for the GameDetail class in the views.py file. The new lines are highlighted. Don't remove the code we added for the perform_create method for this class. The code file for the sample is included in the...

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Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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