On 17 nov, 10:02, TH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to redirect a logged in user if he access certain page. For
> example i do not want the user to access registration page if he is
> logged in.
>
> A simple way to do this is:
>
> def register(request):
>     if request.user.is_authenticated():
>         return HttpResponseRedirect('/
> some_nice_page_for_logged_in_user')
>     ...
>
> The problem is i have lot of pages that only anonymous user can
> access. So i wanted to write a decorator so that i can do something
> like that
>
> @anonymous_only
> def register(request):

A "decorator" is just a function (or any other callable) that takes a
function as argument and returns a function (or any other callable).
The @decorator syntax is only syntactic sugar.

In most cases, the returned function is just a wrapper around the
decorated one, and this is obviously what you want:

def anonymous_only(view):
  # 'view' is the view function to decorate
  # since we decorate views, we know the first parameter
  # is always going to be the current request
  #
  # '_wrapper' is the function that will be used instead
  # of 'view'.
  def _wrapper(request, *args, **kw):
    # here we can access the request object and
    # either redirect or call 'view'
    if request.user.is_authenticated():
      return HttpResponseRedirect('/page_for_logged_in_user')
    return view(request, *args, **kw)

  # this part is not mandatory, but it may help debugging
  _wrapper.__name__ = view.__name___
  _wrapper.__doc__ = view.__doc__

  # and of course we need to return our _wrapper so
  # it replaces 'view'
  return _wrapper


Note that this example assume you always want to redirect to the same
page if the user is logged in, which might not be the case. Things get
a bit more complicated if you want your decorator to takes the
redirection url as param, since we'll then need one more indirection,
IOW : a function that takes an url and returns a function that takes a
function and returns a 'wrapper':

def anonymous_only(redirect_to):
   def deco(view):
     def _wrapper(request, *args, **kw):
       if request.user.is_authenticated():
         return HttpResponseRedirect(redirect_to)
       return view(request, *args, **kw)

     _wrapper.__name__ = view.__name___
     _wrapper.__doc__ = view.__doc__
     return _wrapper

   return deco


Then you use it that way:

@anonymous_only('/page_for_logged_in_user')
def register(request):
    # code here

HTH

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