Why groups are not populated upon `auth_permission`?
Upon Django I made this migration:
# Generated by Django 5.2.17 on 2026-09-19 15:23
from django.db import migrations
class Migration(migrations.Migration):
dependencies = [
('blog', '0001_initial'),
]
operations = [
migrations.AlterModelOptions(
name='article',
options={'permissions': [('create_article', 'Permission for a User to create an Article'), ('update_article', 'Permission for a user to edit an article')]},
),
]
But upon auth_persmission the permission create_article and update_article are not populated:
| id | content_type_id | codename | name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | add_logentry | Can add log entry |
| 2 | 1 | change_logentry | Can change log entry |
| 3 | 1 | delete_logentry | Can delete log entry |
| 4 | 1 | view_logentry | Can view log entry |
| 5 | 2 | add_permission | Can add permission |
| 6 | 2 | change_permission | Can change permission |
| 7 | 2 | delete_permission | Can delete permission |
| 8 | 2 | view_permission | Can view permission |
| 9 | 3 | add_group | Can add group |
| 10 | 3 | change_group | Can change group |
| 11 | 3 | delete_group | Can delete group |
| 12 | 3 | view_group | Can view group |
| 13 | 4 | add_contenttype | Can add content type |
| 14 | 4 | change_contenttype | Can change content type |
| 15 | 4 | delete_contenttype | Can delete content type |
| 16 | 4 | view_contenttype | Can view content type |
| 17 | 5 | add_session | Can add session |
| 18 | 5 | change_session | Can change session |
| 19 | 5 | delete_session | Can delete session |
| 20 | 5 | view_session | Can view session |
| 21 | 6 | add_category | Can add category |
| 22 | 6 | change_category | Can change category |
| 23 | 6 | delete_category | Can delete category |
| 24 | 6 | view_category | Can view category |
| 25 | 7 | add_article | Can add article |
| 26 | 7 | change_article | Can change article |
| 27 | 7 | delete_article | Can delete article |
| 28 | 7 | view_article | Can view article |
| 29 | 8 | add_user | Can add user |
| 30 | 8 | change_user | Can change user |
| 31 | 8 | delete_user | Can delete user |
| 32 | 8 | view_user | Can view user |
Why though??? As far as I understand upon auth_permission the permissions are stored then once I do upon models.py:
class Article(models.Model):
id=models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
title=models.CharField(max_length=255)
content=models.TextField()
slug=models.SlugField()
author = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
category = models.ManyToManyField(Category)
class Meta:
permissions = [
("create_article","Permission for a User to create an Article"),
("update_article","Permission for a user to edit an article")
]
But the:
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
Does not create the persmission upon db. Do you know why???