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

when permission isn't granted, I will raise a exception which custom response. It works on djangorestframewor(3.10.1) and django(2.2.3).

from rest_framework.permissions import BasePermission
from rest_framework.exceptions import APIException
from rest_framework import status


class IsLogin(BasePermission):
    """
    Allows access only to authenticated users.
    """

    def has_permission(self, request, view):
        if request.email:
            return True
        raise NeedLogin()


class NeedLogin(APIException):
    status_code = status.HTTP_403_FORBIDDEN
    default_detail = {'error': True, 'message': 'need login'}
    default_code = 'not_authenticated'