Returning custom message when a permission is denied in DRF

Question

Django REST Framework has an excellent piece of documentation about permissions. I\'ve been able to use pre-made permission classes and also built my own.

However, there

Answer 1

Since DRF 3.2.0, You only have to add a message attribute :

from rest_framework import permissions

class CustomerAccessPermission(permissions.BasePermission):
    message = 'Adding customers not allowed.'

    def has_permission(self, request, view): 

See from DRF documentation: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/permissions/#custom-permissions