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+#
+# Copyright (c) 2013 Big Switch Networks, Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Eclipse Public License, Version 1.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the
+# License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+# implied. See the License for the specific language governing
+# permissions and limitations under the License.
+#
+
+import warnings
+
+from django.conf import settings
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User, Group, Permission, AnonymousUser
+from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
+from django.test import TestCase
+from django.utils.unittest import skipIf
+
+
+class BackendTest(TestCase):
+
+    backend = 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.curr_auth = settings.AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS
+        settings.AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (self.backend,)
+        User.objects.create_user('test', 'test@example.com', 'test')
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        settings.AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = self.curr_auth
+
+    @skipIf(True, "Do not support")
+    def test_has_perm(self):
+        user = User.objects.get(username='test')
+        self.assertEqual(user.has_perm('auth.test'), False)
+        user.is_staff = True
+        user.save()
+        self.assertEqual(user.has_perm('auth.test'), False)
+        user.is_superuser = True
+        user.save()
+        self.assertEqual(user.has_perm('auth.test'), True)
+        user.is_staff = False
+        user.is_superuser = False
+        user.save()
+        self.assertEqual(user.has_perm('auth.test'), False)
+        user.is_staff = True
+        user.is_superuser = True
+        user.is_active = False
+        user.save()
+        self.assertEqual(user.has_perm('auth.test'), False)
+
+    @skipIf(True, "Do not support")
+    def test_custom_perms(self):
+        user = User.objects.get(username='test')
+        content_type=ContentType.objects.get_for_model(Group)
+        perm = Permission.objects.create(name='test', content_type=content_type, codename='test')
+        user.user_permissions.add(perm)
+        user.save()
+
+        # reloading user to purge the _perm_cache
+        user = User.objects.get(username='test')
+        self.assertEqual(user.get_all_permissions() == set([u'auth.test']), True)
+        self.assertEqual(user.get_group_permissions(), set([]))
+        self.assertEqual(user.has_module_perms('Group'), False)
+        self.assertEqual(user.has_module_perms('auth'), True)
+        perm = Permission.objects.create(name='test2', content_type=content_type, codename='test2')
+        user.user_permissions.add(perm)
+        user.save()
+        perm = Permission.objects.create(name='test3', content_type=content_type, codename='test3')
+        user.user_permissions.add(perm)
+        user.save()
+        user = User.objects.get(username='test')
+        self.assertEqual(user.get_all_permissions(), set([u'auth.test2', u'auth.test', u'auth.test3']))
+        self.assertEqual(user.has_perm('test'), False)
+        self.assertEqual(user.has_perm('auth.test'), True)
+        self.assertEqual(user.has_perms(['auth.test2', 'auth.test3']), True)
+        perm = Permission.objects.create(name='test_group', content_type=content_type, codename='test_group')
+        group = Group.objects.create(name='test_group')
+        group.permissions.add(perm)
+        group.save()
+        user.groups.add(group)
+        user = User.objects.get(username='test')
+        exp = set([u'auth.test2', u'auth.test', u'auth.test3', u'auth.test_group'])
+        self.assertEqual(user.get_all_permissions(), exp)
+        self.assertEqual(user.get_group_permissions(), set([u'auth.test_group']))
+        self.assertEqual(user.has_perms(['auth.test3', 'auth.test_group']), True)
+
+        user = AnonymousUser()
+        self.assertEqual(user.has_perm('test'), False)
+        self.assertEqual(user.has_perms(['auth.test2', 'auth.test3']), False)
+
+    @skipIf(True, "Do not support")
+    def test_has_no_object_perm(self):
+        """Regressiontest for #12462"""
+        user = User.objects.get(username='test')
+        content_type=ContentType.objects.get_for_model(Group)
+        perm = Permission.objects.create(name='test', content_type=content_type, codename='test')
+        user.user_permissions.add(perm)
+        user.save()
+
+        self.assertEqual(user.has_perm('auth.test', 'object'), False)
+        self.assertEqual(user.get_all_permissions('object'), set([]))
+        self.assertEqual(user.has_perm('auth.test'), True)
+        self.assertEqual(user.get_all_permissions(), set(['auth.test']))
+
+
+class TestObj(object):
+    pass
+
+
+class SimpleRowlevelBackend(object):
+    supports_object_permissions = True
+
+    # This class also supports tests for anonymous user permissions,
+    # via subclasses which just set the 'supports_anonymous_user' attribute.
+
+    def has_perm(self, user, perm, obj=None):
+        if not obj:
+            return # We only support row level perms
+
+        if isinstance(obj, TestObj):
+            if user.username == 'test2':
+                return True
+            elif user.is_anonymous() and perm == 'anon':
+                # not reached due to supports_anonymous_user = False
+                return True
+        return False
+
+    def has_module_perms(self, user, app_label):
+        return app_label == "app1"
+
+    def get_all_permissions(self, user, obj=None):
+        if not obj:
+            return [] # We only support row level perms
+
+        if not isinstance(obj, TestObj):
+            return ['none']
+
+        if user.is_anonymous():
+            return ['anon']
+        if user.username == 'test2':
+            return ['simple', 'advanced']
+        else:
+            return ['simple']
+
+    def get_group_permissions(self, user, obj=None):
+        if not obj:
+            return # We only support row level perms
+
+        if not isinstance(obj, TestObj):
+            return ['none']
+
+        if 'test_group' in [group.name for group in user.groups.all()]:
+            return ['group_perm']
+        else:
+            return ['none']
+
+
+class RowlevelBackendTest(TestCase):
+    """
+    Tests for auth backend that supports object level permissions
+    """
+    backend = 'django.contrib.auth.tests.auth_backends.SimpleRowlevelBackend'
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.curr_auth = settings.AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS
+        settings.AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = tuple(self.curr_auth) + (self.backend,)
+        self.user1 = User.objects.create_user('test', 'test@example.com', 'test')
+        self.user2 = User.objects.create_user('test2', 'test2@example.com', 'test')
+        self.user3 = User.objects.create_user('test3', 'test3@example.com', 'test')
+        self.save_warnings_state()
+        warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', category=DeprecationWarning,
+                                module='django.contrib.auth')
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        settings.AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = self.curr_auth
+        self.restore_warnings_state()
+
+    @skipIf(True, "Do not support")
+    def test_has_perm(self):
+        self.assertEqual(self.user1.has_perm('perm', TestObj()), False)
+        self.assertEqual(self.user2.has_perm('perm', TestObj()), True)
+        self.assertEqual(self.user2.has_perm('perm'), False)
+        self.assertEqual(self.user2.has_perms(['simple', 'advanced'], TestObj()), True)
+        self.assertEqual(self.user3.has_perm('perm', TestObj()), False)
+        self.assertEqual(self.user3.has_perm('anon', TestObj()), False)
+        self.assertEqual(self.user3.has_perms(['simple', 'advanced'], TestObj()), False)
+
+    @skipIf(True, "Do not support")
+    def test_get_all_permissions(self):
+        self.assertEqual(self.user1.get_all_permissions(TestObj()), set(['simple']))
+        self.assertEqual(self.user2.get_all_permissions(TestObj()), set(['simple', 'advanced']))
+        self.assertEqual(self.user2.get_all_permissions(), set([]))
+
+    @skipIf(True, "Do not support")
+    def test_get_group_permissions(self):
+        content_type=ContentType.objects.get_for_model(Group)
+        group = Group.objects.create(name='test_group')
+        self.user3.groups.add(group)
+        self.assertEqual(self.user3.get_group_permissions(TestObj()), set(['group_perm']))
+
+
+class AnonymousUserBackend(SimpleRowlevelBackend):
+
+    supports_anonymous_user = True
+
+
+class NoAnonymousUserBackend(SimpleRowlevelBackend):
+
+    supports_anonymous_user = False
+
+
+class AnonymousUserBackendTest(TestCase):
+    """
+    Tests for AnonymousUser delegating to backend if it has 'supports_anonymous_user' = True
+    """
+
+    backend = 'django.contrib.auth.tests.auth_backends.AnonymousUserBackend'
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.curr_auth = settings.AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS
+        settings.AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (self.backend,)
+        self.user1 = AnonymousUser()
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        settings.AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = self.curr_auth
+
+    @skipIf(True, "Do not support")
+    def test_has_perm(self):
+        self.assertEqual(self.user1.has_perm('perm', TestObj()), False)
+        self.assertEqual(self.user1.has_perm('anon', TestObj()), True)
+
+    @skipIf(True, "Do not support")
+    def test_has_perms(self):
+        self.assertEqual(self.user1.has_perms(['anon'], TestObj()), True)
+        self.assertEqual(self.user1.has_perms(['anon', 'perm'], TestObj()), False)
+
+    def test_has_module_perms(self):
+        self.assertEqual(self.user1.has_module_perms("app1"), True)
+        self.assertEqual(self.user1.has_module_perms("app2"), False)
+
+    @skipIf(True, "Do not support")
+    def test_get_all_permissions(self):
+        self.assertEqual(self.user1.get_all_permissions(TestObj()), set(['anon']))
+
+
+class NoAnonymousUserBackendTest(TestCase):
+    """
+    Tests that AnonymousUser does not delegate to backend if it has 'supports_anonymous_user' = False
+    """
+    backend = 'django.contrib.auth.tests.auth_backends.NoAnonymousUserBackend'
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.curr_auth = settings.AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS
+        settings.AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = tuple(self.curr_auth) + (self.backend,)
+        self.user1 = AnonymousUser()
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        settings.AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = self.curr_auth
+
+    @skipIf(True, "Do not support")
+    def test_has_perm(self):
+        self.assertEqual(self.user1.has_perm('perm', TestObj()), False)
+        self.assertEqual(self.user1.has_perm('anon', TestObj()), False)
+
+    def test_has_perms(self):
+        self.assertEqual(self.user1.has_perms(['anon'], TestObj()), False)
+
+    def test_has_module_perms(self):
+        self.assertEqual(self.user1.has_module_perms("app1"), False)
+        self.assertEqual(self.user1.has_module_perms("app2"), False)
+
+    def test_get_all_permissions(self):
+        self.assertEqual(self.user1.get_all_permissions(TestObj()), set())