add get_user_permissions method to ModelBackend

[Gary Wilson]

Makes the code more readable and creates a useful method for subclasses.

[(none)]

Milestone post-1.0 deleted

[Jeff Kistler]

Added documentation. Patch passes all existing auth tests.

[James Bennett]

1.3 is feature-frozen now.

[Aymeric Augustin]

Change UI/UX from NULL to False.

[Aymeric Augustin]

Change Easy pickings from NULL to False.

[Tim Graham]

Documentation isn't correct - this isn't a method on the User object, but on rather on ModelBackend which is documented at the bottom of docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt, although none of the methods for the backend are documented so presumably if we documented this one we'd want to document the rest. This ticket also has "needs tests" set, and while I imagine we could test the ability to override the method in a custom backend, I'm not convinced it's necessary as it doesn't look like the rest of the backend is tested in such a way.

[jorgecarleitao]

timo is right. I added a pull request, ​https://github.com/django/django/pull/2127, that fixes the docs of ModelBackend and apply the patch.

I didn't added a test case because, like timo argued, the backend is not tested anyway. I will fill a ticket reporting this.

[Tim Graham]

Please uncheck "Patch needs improvement" when you update the PR, thanks.

[jorgecarleitao]

See ​https://github.com/jorgecarleitao/django/commit/ac217515b5290b6bab8a7a78d38bf309e063b3f6

[Tim Graham <timograham@…>]

In cc35bd461d35da2b03c0a1a8ff92123d716db9a9:

Fixed #7599 -- Added get_user_permissions to ModelBackend.

Thanks to @gdub for the report and intial patch and
@charettes and @timgraham for the review.