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Diffstat (limited to 'djangorestframework/authenticators.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | djangorestframework/authenticators.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/djangorestframework/authenticators.py b/djangorestframework/authenticators.py index e382de10..e8331cc7 100644 --- a/djangorestframework/authenticators.py +++ b/djangorestframework/authenticators.py @@ -28,8 +28,9 @@ class BaseAuthenticator(object): The default permission checking on Resource will use the allowed_methods attribute for permissions if the authentication context is not None, and use anon_allowed_methods otherwise. - The authentication context is passed to the method calls eg Resource.get(request, auth) in order to - allow them to apply any more fine grained permission checking at the point the response is being generated. + The authentication context is available to the method calls eg Resource.get(request) + by accessing self.auth in order to allow them to apply any more fine grained permission + checking at the point the response is being generated. This function must be overridden to be implemented.""" return None |