""" Helper methods for determining user access permissions in Studio """ from student.roles import CourseStaffRole, GlobalStaff, CourseInstructorRole, OrgStaffRole, OrgInstructorRole from student import auth def has_course_access(user, course_key, role=CourseStaffRole): """ Return True if user allowed to access this course_id Note that the CMS permissions model is with respect to courses There is a super-admin permissions if user.is_staff is set Also, since we're unifying the user database between LMS and CAS, I'm presuming that the course instructor (formally known as admin) will not be in both INSTRUCTOR and STAFF groups, so we have to cascade our queries here as INSTRUCTOR has all the rights that STAFF do """ if GlobalStaff().has_user(user): return True if OrgInstructorRole(org=course_key.org).has_user(user): return True if OrgStaffRole(org=course_key.org).has_user(user): return True return auth.has_access(user, role(course_key)) def get_user_role(user, course_id): """ What type of access: staff or instructor does this user have in Studio? No code should use this for access control, only to quickly serialize the type of access where this code knows that Instructor trumps Staff and assumes the user has one or the other. This will not return student role because its purpose for using in Studio. :param course_id: the course_id of the course we're interested in """ # afaik, this is only used in lti if auth.has_access(user, CourseInstructorRole(course_id)): return 'instructor' else: return 'staff'