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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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Creating a customized permission class for object-level permissions


Create a new Python file named permissions.py within the games folder and enter the following code that, declares the new IsOwnerOrReadOnly class. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_chapter_03_04 folder:

from rest_framework import permissions 
 
 
class IsOwnerOrReadOnly(permissions.BasePermission): 
    def has_object_permission(self, request, view, obj): 
        if request.method in permissions.SAFE_METHODS: 
            return True 
        else: 
            return obj.owner == request.user 

The rest_framework.permissions.BasePermission class is the base class from which all permission classes should inherit. The previous lines declare the IsOwnerOrReadOnly class as a subclass of the BasePermission class and overrides the has_object_permission method defined in the superclass that returns a bool value indicating whether the permission should be granted or not. If the HTTP verb specified in...

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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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