Adding django_content_type and permission without model

Question

I want to have some permissions on few contents, which are NOT models, but are 'name' in the following table:

mysql> select * from my_contents;
+----+---------------------+
| id | name                |
+----+---------------------+
|  1 | content1            |
|  2 | content2            |

I understand that Django's Permission model requires a ContentType instance. So, I also inserted these 2 entries in django_content_type table with arbitrary app_label and model. Something like:

| 20 | content1  | some_label    | content1  |
| 21 | content2 | some_label     | content2  |

Now, I was thinking that on running syncdb permissions for these 2 new contents will be created automatically in auth_permission, but instead, I get:

The following content types are stale and need to be deleted:

    some_label | content1
    some_label | content2

How do I update the permissions for these 2 contents (without model) ?

Answer 1

What you are attempting to do sounds like per object permissions. For each object within a model you want to set permissions on it. Django does not support this but django-guardian does. If you look at the link it provides a simple example on how to achieve this outcome.

If you really want to have a permission that does not have a matching model then have a look at this snippet. Have not tested it personaly