Fix (beta): don't batch permissions for tantivy search results

UnifiedSearchViewSet.list() returns SearchHit/dict-like objects for
text/title/query/more_like_id search requests, not Document ORM instances.
Adding BulkPermissionMixin to DocumentViewSet (previous commit) meant its
get_serializer_context() ran for search responses too, and its
_get_object_perms() -- which expects real model instances with .pk --
crashed on the dict-like hits with AttributeError, turning every search
request into a 400.

Skip the batching specifically for search requests (existing
_is_search_request() check) by calling past BulkPermissionMixin in the
MRO; non-search list() calls (which return a real Document queryset) are
unaffected and still get the batching.

Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/documents/serialisers.py

@@ -392,15 +392,34 @@ class OwnedObjectSerializer(
         }
 
     def get_user_can_change(self, obj) -> bool:
-        checker = ObjectPermissionChecker(self.user) if self.user is not None else None
-        return (
-            obj.owner is None
-            or obj.owner == self.user
-            or (
-                self.user is not None
-                and checker.has_perm(f"change_{obj.__class__.__name__.lower()}", obj)
+        if obj.owner is None or obj.owner == self.user:
+            return True
+        if self.user is None:
+            return False
+        if self.user.is_active and self.user.is_superuser:
+            # Mirrors guardian's own ObjectPermissionChecker.has_perm() shortcut --
+            # superusers aren't necessarily granted explicit object permissions,
+            # so the batched context below would otherwise incorrectly say no.
+            return True
+
+        # Prefer the page-level batch computed by BulkPermissionMixin
+        # (get_serializer_context) over a fresh per-object guardian check,
+        # which would otherwise query the permission tables once per row.
+        users_change_perms = self.context.get("users_change_perms")
+        groups_change_perms = self.context.get("groups_change_perms")
+        if users_change_perms is not None and groups_change_perms is not None:
+            if self.user.pk in users_change_perms.get(obj.pk, []):
+                return True
+            user_group_ids = getattr(self, "_user_group_ids", None)
+            if user_group_ids is None:
+                user_group_ids = set(self.user.groups.values_list("id", flat=True))
+                self._user_group_ids = user_group_ids
+            return bool(
+                user_group_ids.intersection(groups_change_perms.get(obj.pk, [])),
             )
-        )
+
+        checker = ObjectPermissionChecker(self.user)
+        return checker.has_perm(f"change_{obj.__class__.__name__.lower()}", obj)
 
     @staticmethod
     def get_shared_object_pks(objects: Iterable):

src/documents/tests/test_api_permissions.py

@@ -568,6 +568,30 @@ class TestApiAuth(DirectoriesMixin, APITestCase):
         self.assertNotIn("user_can_change", results[0])
         self.assertNotIn("is_shared_by_requester", results[0])
 
+    def test_superuser_user_can_change_without_explicit_grant(self) -> None:
+        """
+        A superuser has implicit change access to every document, even one
+        owned by someone else with no explicit guardian grant -- mirrors
+        guardian's own ObjectPermissionChecker.has_perm() superuser shortcut.
+        """
+        superuser = User.objects.create_superuser(username="admin")
+        other_user = User.objects.create_user(username="user2")
+        Document.objects.create(
+            title="Test",
+            content="content",
+            checksum="1",
+            owner=other_user,
+        )
+
+        self.client.force_authenticate(superuser)
+
+        response = self.client.get("/api/documents/", format="json")
+
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, status.HTTP_200_OK)
+        results = response.json()["results"]
+        self.assertEqual(len(results), 1)
+        self.assertTrue(results[0]["user_can_change"])
+
     @mock.patch("allauth.mfa.adapter.DefaultMFAAdapter.is_mfa_enabled")
     def test_basic_auth_mfa_enabled(self, mock_is_mfa_enabled) -> None:
         """

src/documents/views.py

@@ -431,14 +431,12 @@ class BulkPermissionMixin:
         This avoid fetching permissions object by object in database.
         """
         context = super().get_serializer_context()
-        try:
-            full_perms = get_boolean(
-                str(self.request.query_params.get("full_perms", "false")),
-            )
-        except ValueError:
-            full_perms = False
 
-        if not full_perms:
+        if getattr(self, "action", None) != "list":
+            # Batching only pays off across a page of objects; for single-object
+            # actions (retrieve, update, ...) the per-object fallback in
+            # get_user_can_change()/_get_perms() is cheap and avoids scanning
+            # the whole queryset here.
             return context
 
         # Check which objects are being paginated
@@ -943,6 +941,7 @@ class EmailDocumentDetailSchema(EmailSerializer):
     ),
 )
 class DocumentViewSet(
+    BulkPermissionMixin,
     PassUserMixin,
     RetrieveModelMixin,
     UpdateModelMixin,
@@ -2291,6 +2290,15 @@ class UnifiedSearchViewSet(DocumentViewSet):
             return SearchResultSerializer
         return DocumentSerializer
 
+    def get_serializer_context(self):
+        if self._is_search_request():
+            # BulkPermissionMixin.get_serializer_context() (inherited via
+            # DocumentViewSet) assumes it's batching permissions for a page of
+            # real Document instances. Tantivy search results are SearchHit/
+            # dict-like objects instead, so skip straight past it here.
+            return super(BulkPermissionMixin, self).get_serializer_context()
+        return super().get_serializer_context()
+
     def _get_active_search_params(self, request: Request | None = None) -> list[str]:
         request = request or self.request
         return [