dfunckt/django-rules

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1977 stars · 152 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Python library providing object-level permissions for Django without requiring a database, built on a generic rule-based predicate framework. It integrates with Django views, templates, the Admin, and Django Rest Framework, and can also be used standalone.

Use cases

• add object-level permissions to a django app without database-backed permission tables
• define reusable authorization predicates as composable callables
• check per-object permissions in django templates and admin
• enforce object-level permissions in django rest framework
• build a standalone rule-based decision system in python

When to choose

• you need per-object authorization logic in Django without storing permissions in the database
• you want composable, testable predicates instead of ad-hoc permission checks
• you need permissions usable across views, templates, admin, and DRF consistently

When to avoid

• you need database-backed, user-editable permission assignments managed at runtime
• you are not using Django and only need simple role-based access control
• you need attribute-based encryption or policy engines like OPA

Facets

library · maturity stable

authorization middleware web-development backend security python django permissions predicates object-level-permissions rule-based no-database web-server

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