Fixed #29419 -- Allowed permissioning of admin actions.

docs/ref/checks.txt

@@ -579,6 +579,8 @@ with the admin site:
   which does not refer to a Field.
 * **admin.E128**: The value of ``date_hierarchy`` must be a ``DateField`` or
   ``DateTimeField``.
+* **admin.E129**: ``<modeladmin>`` must define a ``has_<foo>_permission()``
+  method for the ``<action>`` action.
 
 ``InlineModelAdmin``
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

docs/ref/contrib/admin/actions.txt

@@ -357,3 +357,52 @@ Conditionally enabling or disabling actions
                     if 'delete_selected' in actions:
                         del actions['delete_selected']
                 return actions
+
+.. _admin-action-permissions:
+
+Setting permissions for actions
+-------------------------------
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.1
+
+Actions may limit their availability to users with specific permissions by
+setting an ``allowed_permissions`` attribute on the action function::
+
+    def make_published(modeladmin, request, queryset):
+        queryset.update(status='p')
+    make_published.allowed_permissions = ('change',)
+
+The ``make_published()`` action will only be available to users that pass the
+:meth:`.ModelAdmin.has_change_permission` check.
+
+If ``allowed_permissions`` has more than one permission, the action will be
+available as long as the user passes at least one of the checks.
+
+Available values for ``allowed_permissions`` and the corresponding method
+checks are:
+
+- ``'add'``: :meth:`.ModelAdmin.has_add_permission`
+- ``'change'``: :meth:`.ModelAdmin.has_change_permission`
+- ``'delete'``: :meth:`.ModelAdmin.has_delete_permission`
+- ``'view'``: :meth:`.ModelAdmin.has_view_permission`
+
+You can specify any other value as long as you implement a corresponding
+``has_<value>_permission(self, request)`` method on the ``ModelAdmin``.
+
+For example::
+
+    from django.contrib import admin
+    from django.contrib.auth import get_permission_codename
+
+    class ArticleAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
+        actions = ['make_published']
+
+        def make_published(self, request, queryset):
+            queryset.update(status='p')
+        make_published.allowed_permissions = ('publish',)
+
+        def has_publish_permission(self, request):
+            """Does the user have the publish permission?"""
+            opts = self.opts
+            codename = get_permission_codename('publish', opts)
+            return request.user.has_perm('%s.%s' % (opts.app_label, codename))

docs/releases/2.1.txt

@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ Minor features
 * :meth:`.InlineModelAdmin.has_add_permission` is now passed the parent object
   as the second positional argument, ``obj``.
 
+* Admin actions may now :ref:`specify permissions <admin-action-permissions>`
+  to limit their availability to certain users.
+
 :mod:`django.contrib.auth`
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~