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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---