Django Rest Framework: Custom Permissions Not Being Enforced As Expected
I'm relatively new to this, so bear with me. I've looked through the documentation and I'm still confused about Quick question that's been bugging me - I'm currently working on a Django application using Django Rest Framework (DRF) to create a RESTful API... I've implemented a custom permission class to restrict access to certain endpoints based on user roles. However, it seems that the permissions are not being enforced as expected, and I need to figure out why. The relevant part of my code where I define the custom permission looks like this: ```python from rest_framework.permissions import BasePermission class IsAdminUser(BasePermission): def has_permission(self, request, view): return request.user and request.user.is_staff ``` I've applied this permission to one of my views like this: ```python from rest_framework.views import APIView from rest_framework.response import Response class MySecureView(APIView): permission_classes = [IsAdminUser] def get(self, request): return Response({'message': 'Hello, Admin!'}) ``` My expectation is that only users with `is_staff` set to True should be able to access the endpoint. However, when I test it with a regular user (who is not an admin), I still receive a successful response instead of a 403 Forbidden. I've ensured that the user is correctly authenticated, and I can see in the logs that the user is being recognized with the correct permissions. I've also confirmed that `IsAdminUser` is indeed being used by adding debug print statements inside `has_permission`. It prints `True` for admin users and `False` for non-admins, but the response is still successful for non-admin users. I've tried clearing my browser's cache and testing with different users, but the scenario continues. I'm currently using Django 3.2 and Django Rest Framework 3.12. Any insights on what might be going wrong or how to debug this further would be greatly appreciated! What's the best practice here? Any help would be greatly appreciated! For reference, this is a production web app. Any ideas what could be causing this? Is there a simpler solution I'm overlooking?