Question

I have Business model that has an active field that defaults to False. This field is set to True when the user has submitted a payment.

The business model has a “profile” page. I was wondering if there is any way of not allowing access to that profile page if the active field is not set to True.

urlpatterns = patterns('listings.views',
    # other patterns here...
    url(r'^profile/(?P<slug>[A-Za-z0-9-]+)/$', 'business_profile', name="business_profile"),
    # other urls here...
)

Should I just check this field in the view.business_profile method? Or is there a better way of doing this?

Answer 1

One better way might be to set the business_profile view to return a 404 in case the ‘business model’ instance has active=False.