How can dynamically create permission in django?

Question

Now I can create new groups using Django group module. from django.contrib.auth.models import Group I can assign permissions to group. For example I created a new group "HR"

by Group(name="HR") .

Now I want to create permissions like

• can_create_hr
• can_edit_hr

I should able to assign this permission to other groups.

How can I do it?

Answer 1

You can create and assign permission directly to groups as well. Just create the permission add the permission to group

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

content_type = ContentType.objects.get(app_label='app_name', model='model_name')
permission = Permission.objects.create(codename='can_create_hr',
                                       name='Can create HR',
                                       content_type=content_type) # creating permissions
group = Group.objects.get(name='HR')
group.permissions.add(permission)

If you want to assign this permission to another group then just get the permission object and assign in the same way.

permission = Permission.objects.get(codename='can_create_hr')
group= Group.objects.get(name='some_name')
group.permissions.add(permission)

You can read more about it in docs