outdated django book

[knowledge_seeker]

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?

Similarly, admin does not allow access to my classes, even when I have
created an Admin class; is this a new security feature?

Finally, when I tried to create a view that allowed web-based user
creation, the views.py file would not recognize the class "User"; is
there something I need to import?

[Jonathan D. Baker]

You need to import User from django.contrib.auth.models and login_required from django.contrib.auth.decorators. Hope this helps.

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[Daniel Roseman]

Which, of course, is nothing to do with Django versions, and was true even when the Django book was new.

On Saturday, 28 April 2012 03:30:26 UTC+1, jondbaker wrote:

You need to import User from django.contrib.auth.models and login_required from django.contrib.auth.decorators. Hope this helps.

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[Jonathan Baker]

Ah yes, I should have clarified that in my response. @knowledge_seeker, if you'll check your python code with a tool like pyflakes it will tell you when you're referencing modules that have not been imported (as well as many other common errors). I use the pyflakes for vim plugin and it saves me from a ton of headaches.

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[knowledge_seeker]

Thanks for the help guys; I am glad the books were not so out of date!

[Reinout van Rees]

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.


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