Bingo! Looks like i was lazy with my code and threw decorators on ALL
the functions, not just my views. There was a lingering decorator on
the send_file function that i did not notice. Thanks for pointing out
my sloppines;) You saved me a ton of time today, double thanks!
On Mar 30, 12:02 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Robocop <btha...@physics.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
> > So the fun continues. I realized that i did not need to use the
> > login_required decorator on this function since it's just tossed
> > around in the backend, so i took that out thinking it would prevent
> > decorators.py from being called.
>
> Did you take it out before even posting the code for timesheet_export?
> Because there is no evidence of that function being decorated with
> login_required in what you posted, which is a bit puzzling.
>
> > When i hit the function above now,
> > it posts the same error with a different request (can be viewed here
> >http://dpaste.com/21238/). The string object it's having trouble
> > with is this:
> > '/home/mipscomp/public_html/support/helpdesk/exported/03_30_09.txt
>
> > I'm pretty confused at this point, as i've never seen this error
> > before. And the last time i recall working with this code, it worked
> > flawlessly. Ridicule and ideas are greatly appreciated.
>
> The traceback is not so big it can't be posted:
>
> Traceback:
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py"
> in get_response
> 86. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
> File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/decorators.py"
> in __call__
> 67. return self.view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
> File "/home/mipscomp/public_html/support/helpdesk/projects/views.py" in
> audit_sheets_test
> 580. response = send_file(path,None, None)
> File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/decorators.py"
> in __call__
> 66. if self.test_func(request.user):
>
> Exception Type: AttributeError at /audit_sheets/TEST/
> Exception Value: 'str' object has no attribute 'user'
>
> So, your code appears to be thinking it's calling a function called
> "send_file" and passing in a path argument (likely the string object you
> list above, as that quite looks like a path) but instead it jumps into
> decorator code. And the decorator code, instead of getting the request
> object it expects as its first arg, get this path string, and dies a
> horrible death trying to treat a string as a request object.
>
> So it looks like another case of improper decoration. You cannot just
> decorate arbitrary functions with @login_requried -- it expects to be used
> specifically with view functions, that always get request as their first
> argument. If you decorate some other function that doesn't take a request as
> a first argument, you get errors like what you are reporting.
>
> Karen
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