Programmatically create a django group with permis

Question

In the Admin console, I can add a group and add a bunch of permissions that relate to my models, e.g.

api | project | Can add project
api | project | Can change project
api | project | Can delete project

How can I do this programmatically. I can't find any information out there on how to do this.

I have:

from django.contrib.auth.models import Group, Permission
from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType

from api.models import Project


new_group, created = Group.objects.get_or_create(name='new_group')
# Code to add permission to group ???
ct = ContentType.objects.get_for_model(Project)
# Now what - Say I want to add 'Can add project' permission to new_group?

UPDATE: Thanks for the answer you provided. I was able to use that to work out what I needed. In my case, I can do the following:

new_group, created = Group.objects.get_or_create(name='new_group')
proj_add_perm = Permission.objects.get(name='Can add project')
new_group.permissions.add(proj_add_perm)

Answer 1

I needed to create a default set of groups and permission (view only) for those groups. I came up with a manage.py command that may be useful to others (create_groups.py). You can add it to your <app>/management/commands dir, and then run via manage.py create_groups:

"""
Create permission groups
Create permissions (read only) to models for a set of groups
"""
import logging

from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand
from django.contrib.auth.models import Group
from django.contrib.auth.models import Permission

GROUPS = ['developers', 'devops', 'qa', 'operators', 'product']
MODELS = ['video', 'article', 'license', 'list', 'page', 'client']
PERMISSIONS = ['view', ]  # For now only view permission by default for all, others include add, delete, change


class Command(BaseCommand):
    help = 'Creates read only default permission groups for users'

    def handle(self, *args, **options):
        for group in GROUPS:
            new_group, created = Group.objects.get_or_create(name=group)
            for model in MODELS:
                for permission in PERMISSIONS:
                    name = 'Can {} {}'.format(permission, model)
                    print("Creating {}".format(name))

                    try:
                        model_add_perm = Permission.objects.get(name=name)
                    except Permission.DoesNotExist:
                        logging.warning("Permission not found with name '{}'.".format(name))
                        continue

                    new_group.permissions.add(model_add_perm)

        print("Created default group and permissions.")

Answer 2

Use below code

from django.contrib.auth.models import Group, Permission
from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
from api.models import Project
new_group, created = Group.objects.get_or_create(name='new_group')
# Code to add permission to group ???
ct = ContentType.objects.get_for_model(Project)

# Now what - Say I want to add 'Can add project' permission to new_group?
permission = Permission.objects.create(codename='can_add_project',
                                   name='Can add project',
                                   content_type=ct)
new_group.permissions.add(permission)