Question

Could someone show me how i could write a login decorator like @redirect_to_home for my views so that it modifies the request.PATH variable to a new a value like / whenever it is applied to a view.

I’ve seen people do quite complex stuff with decorators: I’m yet to figure them out thoroughly.

Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks to Piotr for his helpful examples.

def fake_requested_from_root(fn):
    """
    Login decorator which when used on a view modifies the reqquest.path
    to fool the template into thibking that the request is coming from the
    root page
    """
    def decorator(request, **kwargs):
        request.path = reverse('home')
        return fn(request, **kwargs)
    return decorator