Changelog

• :release:`1.17.0 <2025-03-17>`

• :bug:`316 major` MultiplePermissionsRequiredMixin didn’t do object-level permission checks.

• :bug:`309 minor` RecentLoginRequiredMixin no longer throws error about GET requests in Django >= 5.0

• :release:`1.16.0 <2024-10-09>`

• :support:`290` Fixed a few typos in the docs.

• :support:`287` No longer building a universal wheel

• :support:`300` Removed unnecessarily explicit super() call

• :support:`301` Removed unnecessarily explicit super() call

• :support:`307` Use unittest.mock instead of mock package

• :feature:`305` Add support for Django 4.2

• :support:`277` Updated the codebase to be more modern Python/Django

• :feature:`245` Cache-related headers

• :release:`1.15.0 <2021-11-05>`

• :support:`-` Formatted project with black

• :support:`-` Updated README

• :feature:`265` Drop old Python and Django versions, bring in newer ones

• :release:`1.14.0 <2019-12-30>`

• :support:`260` Fixes the goshdang Travis tests.

• :support:`250` Include documentation Makefile and conf.py in source distribution.

• :support:`246` README more accurately explains the supported Django versions.

• :release:`1.13.0 <2018-04-06>`

• :support:`243` Adds support for Python 3.7 and Django 2.1.

• :support:`244` Documentation link fix.

• :support:`236` Refines the Django and Python versions tested against.

• :support:`241` Fixes a documentation typo, “altenate” should be “alternate”.

• :release:`1.12.0 <2018-04-06>`

• :support:`237` Updates for Django 2.0.

• :support:`232` Updates for Django 1.11.

• :support:`227` Use SVG in README instead of PNG.

• :support:`221` Renamed a duplicative method name.

• :support:`220` Adds a warning for cases where prefetch_related or select_related are empty in their respective mixins.

• :release:`1.11.0 <2017-02-01>`

• :bug:`215 major` Imports for 1.11 and 2.x reverse and reverse_lazy functions.

• :support:`248` Include some files necessary for testing in the source distribution.

• :feature:`228` Adds an object_level_permissions attribute to the PermissionRequiredMixin to allow for object-level permission checks instead of just view-level checks.

• :bug:`224 major` Allows OPTIONS requests to be body-less.

• :bug:`218 major` AccessMixin.handle_no_permission` now accepts a ``request parameter.

• :feature:`198` New OrderableListMixin allows to switch the default ordering setting from asc to desc.

• :support:`215` Imports updated for Django 2.0.

• :feature:`204` New HeaderMixin that allows custom headers to be set on a view.

• :release:`1.10.0 <2016-10-24>`

• :bug:`212 major` Small changes for Django 1.10 compatibility.

• :bug:`211 major` ReadTheDocs links updated.

• :bug:`209 major` Django documentation link updated.

• :release:`1.9.0 <2016-05-31>`

• :bug:`208 major` Fixed errors from combining certain access mixins.

• :bug:`196 major` Refactor how users without permissions are handled.

• :bug:`181 major` Fixed redirect loops based on user permissions.

• :bug:`161 major` Fixed redirect loop for users without proper groups for MultipleGroupRequiredMixin and GroupRequiredMixin.

• :support:`209` Fixed link to Django documentation for user_passes_test decorator.

• :feature:`203` Use Django’s supplied version of six to remove an external dependency.

• :support:`202` Fixed typo in PermissionsRequiredMixin and MultiplePermissionsRequiredMixin.

• :support:`201` Fixed typo in SuccessURLRedirectListMixin.

• :support:`192` Added example for OrderableListView.

• :release:`1.8.1 <2015-07-12>`

• :bug:`176` Only check time delta for authenticated users in RecentLoginRequiredMixin.

• :bug:`-` Changed JsonRequestResponseMixin docs to not use ugettext_lazy.

• :bug:`-` Updated tests to include Python 3.2.

• :bug:`185` Removed u prefixes to allow Python 3.2 support.

• :support:`-` Added note to docs about Python and Django versions used in tests.

• :bug:`-` Fix small issue in docs for :ref:JsonResponseMixin. The accepted kwarg for the render_to_response method is status not status_code.

• :release:`1.8.0 <2015-04-16>`

• :support:`145` Allow custom exceptions to be raised by all AccessMixins.

• :feature:`171` New SSLRequiredMixin. Redirect http -> https.

• :feature:`138` New RecentLoginRequiredMixin to require user sessions to have a given freshness.

• :bug:`164 major` Use resolve_url to handle LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL`s in `settings.py that are just URL names.

• :bug:`130 major` New attribute on JSONResponseMixin to allow setting a custom JSON encoder class.

• :bug:`131 major` New attribute on LoginRequiredMixin so it’s possible to redirect unauthenticated users while using AccessMixin-derived mixins instead of throwing an exception.

• :release:`1.4.0 <2014-03-04>`

• :support:`129` Split views.py out into multiple files since it was approaching 1000 LoC.

• :feature:`119` SetHeadlineMixin now accepts headline with ugettext_lazy()-wrapped strings.

• :bug:`94 major` Fixed a bug where JSONResponseMixin would override the content_type of Django’s TemplateView in Django 1.6.

• :bug:`- major` Fixed bug in PermissionRequiredMixin where if PermissionRequiredMixin.no_permissions_fail returned a false-y value, the user lacking the permission would pass instead of being denied access.

• :support:`73` Added doc for how to contribute.

• :feature:`120` Added MessageMixin to allow easier access to Django’s contrib.messages messages. FormValidMessageMixin and FormInvalidMessageMixin were updated to use it.

• :bug:`98 major` Fixed bug in CanonicalSlugDetailMixin to allow it to use custom URL kwargs.

• :bug:`105 major` Fixed bug in GroupRequiredMixin where superusers were blocked by lack of group memberships.

• :bug:`106 major` Fixed bug in GroupRequiredMixin which now correctly checks for group membership against a list.

• :feature:`102` Added new StaticContextMixin mixin which lets you pass in static_context as a property of the view.

• :feature:`89` Added new AnonymousRequiredMixin which redirects authenticated users to another view.

• :feature:`104` Added new AllVerbsMixin which allows a single method to response to all HTTP verbs.

• :bug:`- major` Provided JSONRequestResponseMixin as a mirror of JsonRequestResponseMixin because we’re not PHP.

• :feature:`107` FormValidMessageMixin, FormInvalidMessageMixin, and FormMessagesMixin all allow ugettext_lazy-wrapped strings.

• :feature:`67` Extended PermissionRequiredMixin and MultiplePermissionsRequiredMixin to accept django-guardian-style custom/object permissions.

• :release:`1.3.1 <2014-01-04>`

• :bug:`95` Removed accidentally-added breakpoint.

• :support:`96 backported` Added build/ to .gitignore

• :release:`1.3.0 <2014-01-03>`

• :support:`59` Removed CreateAndRedirectToEditView mixin which was marked for deprecation and removal since 1.0.0.

• :feature:`51` Added JsonRequestResponseMixin which attempts to parse requests as JSON.

• :feature:`61` Added CanonicalSlugDetailMixin mixin which allows for the specification of a canonical slug on a DetailView to help with SEO by redirecting on non-canonical requests.

• :feature:`76` Added UserPassesTestMixin mixin to replicate the behavior of Django’s @user_passes_test decorator.

• :bug:`- major` Some fixes for CanonicalSlugDetailMixin.

• :feature:`92` AccessMixin now has a runtime-overridable login_url attribute.

• :bug:`- major` Fixed problem with GroupRequiredMixin that made it not actually work.

• :support:`-` All tests pass for Django versions 1.4 through 1.6 and Python versions 2.6, 2.7, and 3.3 (Django 1.4 and 1.5 not tested with Python 3.3).

• :release:`1.2.2 <2013-08-07>`

• :support:`-` Uses six.string_types instead of explicitly relying on str and unicode types.

• :release:`1.2.1 <2013-07-28>`

• :bug:`-` Fix to allow reverse_lazy to work for all AccessMixin-derived mixins.

• :release:`1.2.0 <2013-07-27>`

• :feature:`57` FormValidMessageMixin which provides a messages message when the processed form is valid.

• :feature:`-` FormInvalidMessageMixin which provides a messages message when the processed form is invalid.

• :feature:`-` FormMessagesMixin which provides the functionality of both of the above mixins.

• :feature:`-` GroupRequiredMixin which is a new access-level mixin which requires that a user be part of a specified group to access a view.

• :release:`1.1.0 <2013-07-18>`

• :bug:`52 major` JSONResponseMixin .render_json_response method updated to accept a status code.

• :bug:`43 major` JSONResponseMixin added json_dumps_kwargs attribute & get method to pass args to the JSON encoder.

• :feature:`45` New OrderableListMixin allows ordering of list views by GET params.

• :support:`-` Tests updated to test against latest stable Django release (1.5.1)

• :support:`-` Small fixes and additions to documentation.

• :release:`1.0.0 <2013-02-28>`

• :feature:`-` New ‘abstract’ AccessMixin which provides overridable get_login_url and get_redirect_field_name methods for all access-based mixins.

• :feature:`32` Rewritten LoginRequiredMixin which provides same customization as other access mixins with login_url, raise_exception & redirect_field_name.

• :feature:`33` New PrefetchRelatedMixin. Works the same as SelectRelatedMixin but uses Django’s prefetch_related method.

• :support:`-` CreateAndRedirectToEditView is marked for deprecation.

• :bug:`- major` PermissionRequiredMixin no longer requires dot syntax for permission names.

• :support:`-` Marked package as supporting 2.6 thru 3.3 (from rafales).

• :support:`-` Fixes to documentation.

• :support:`-` Tests to cover new additions and changes.

• :release:`0.2.3 <2013-02-22>`

• :support:`30 backported` Tests for all mixins (from rafales).

• :feature:`26 backported` New CsrfExemptMixin for marking views as being CSRF exempt (from jarcoal).

• :support:`- backported` Some documentation updates and a spelling error correction (from shabda).

• :bug:`-` SuccessURLRedirectListMixin raises ImproperlyConfigured if no success_list_url attribute is supplied (from kennethlove).

• :release:`0.2.2 <2013-01-21>`

• :bug:`25` Try importing the built-in json module first, drop back to Django if necessary.

• :support:`- backported` Django 1.5 compatibility.

• :release:`0.2.1 <2012-12-10>`

• :bug:`21 major` Fixed signature of UserFormKwargsMixin .get_form_kwargs

• :feature:`22` Updated JSONResponseMixin to work with non-ASCII characters and other datatypes (such as datetimes)

• :bug:`- major` Fixed all mixins that have raise_exception as an argument to properly raise a PermissionDenied exception to allow for custom 403s.