Re: outdated django book

On 29-04-12 21:24, knowledge_seeker wrote:
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 7:09:32 PM UTC-7, knowledge_seeker wrote:
>
> My Django book (from the university library) said to add the label
> "@login_required" to views that I wish to restrict user access on.
> Django 1.4 does not allow this; obviously the book is dated! Is there
> a more modern way to get the same effect?

Perhaps your @login_required error was also an forgot-to-import-it
error. But it also might be because you're using a class based view.

If so, look for the 'decorators' heading in the following link:
http://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2011/12/29/class-based-views-django-13/

You need to decorate the dispatch() method in the class-based-view case.


Reinout

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