Before I start, I have read the following tickets;

• Misleading IsAdminUser signature #6497
• Suggestion for the IsAdminUser permission class naming #1701
• permissions.IsAdminUser is not valid #88

And I do agree with the outcome of these tickets. tldr;

I think it's close enough to be clear. We've not had the ticket raised before, and that class has been in place for a long time now.

We have a specific case where we only want super users to access a certain API node. We don't want "is_staff" users to access it, only "is_superusers". The fix for us at the moment is the following code;

class IsSuperUser(BasePermission):
    """
    Allows access only to super users.
    """

    def has_permission(self, request, view):
        return bool(request.user and request.user.is_superuser)

This has clearly been copied from-

Should a permission like this be included within the Django-Rest-Framework, or are we a special case?

Thank you :)