Question

I want to check that the user is authorized for certain URLs. I’m using generic views.

The docs here say the login_required can be passed as an optional arguments but I’m not sure. Something like this maybe: (r'^$', 'archive_index', link_info_dict, 'coltrane_link_archive_index', login_required=True,),

I have this and I would like to be able to use the login_required decorator within the URL. Is it possible? How can I do it?

from django.conf.urls.defaults import *

from coltrane.models import Link

link_info_dict = {
    'queryset': Link.live.all(),
    'date_field': 'pub_date',
}

urlpatterns = patterns('django.views.generic.date_based',
    (r'^$', 'archive_index', link_info_dict, 'coltrane_link_archive_index'),

    (r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/$', 'archive_year', link_info_dict, 'coltrane_link_archive_year'),

    (r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>\w{3})/$', 'archive_month', link_info_dict, 'coltrane_link_archive_month'),

    (r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>\w{3})/(?P<day>\d{2})/$', 'archive_day', link_info_dict, 'coltrane_link_archive_day'),

    (r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>\w{3})/(?P<day>\d{2})/(?P<slug>[-\w]+)/$', 'object_detail', link_info_dict, 'coltrane_link_detail'),

)

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For example how would I protect this page here(there’s no view to add the login_Required decorator to)?

(r'^$', 'django.views.generic.simple.direct_to_template', {
        'template': 'home.html'
    }, ),

Answer 1

To use decorators in urls.py you need use real functions instead of their names:

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
import django.views.generic.date_based as views

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^$', login_required(views.archive_index), link_info_dict,
            'coltrane_link_archive_index'),
    ...