Responses in-line Jim - but before I get to that I really want to thank you for your assistance and patience. I now have to give some serious thought to whether following this document is a worthwhile exercise as it seems to be so far off the mark as far as the current version is concerned.
On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 6:55:35 PM UTC-4, Jim S wrote: > > That is your default.py, correct? > Correct > Which function are you trying to protect with authorization? I'm guessing > it's the index or show. > I'm just trying to follow the documentation - more in a moment First off, I'd get rid of the user and download functions you added. They > are already in place as they should be (the ones at the bottom are what you > want). > Wow - obviously another case where the documentation has been made obsolete by changes in the scaffold code. I didn't notice that. The scaffold includes so much and nothing in the docs gives any hint as to whether it is needed and "just leave it alone" or what you should do. I get the feeling that this tutorial was very useful for an earlier version of the tool but has not been updated as changes were made. I now know to look at every singe function I'm told to add to see if a version is already in place. The problem now is it is not longer clear which code causes these things to be actioned. I now know that all that was needed was the @auth.requires_login() > If I'm correct in my guess about protecting index or show, then you need > to add a decorator to them. > > I'd add > > @auth.requires_login() > > on the line above: > > def show(): > I did that and removed the dups and it now works as it should. Now that I know this I went back to the document and I now see why I missed it. The wording is "We can now decorate the functions that we want to restrict, for example:" - note the "for example". Since I wasn't interested in "decorating" (because to me based on other tools I have used it means to pretty up and add text labels, colors, etc.). I foolishly assumed that all the other lines I had been told to add were what would invoke the authentication. Anyway - thanks again. Maybe I'll try one more section before I give up on this thing. -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/57094597-b0ee-404b-9480-98df3aa70bae%40googlegroups.com.
