Using login_required with direct_to_template?

[snew...@gmail.com]

I'm trying to use the login_required decorator with the
direct_to_template generic view. I've read through the "Extending
Generic Views" section of DjangoBook (as recommended in a similar post
in this group) but I must be missing something.

Here's my best attempt:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^$', 'django.views.generic.simple.direct_to_template',
{'template': 'main.html', 'login_required': 'True'}),
)

What am I missing?

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

An explanation of what you expect to happen and what is actually
happening for a start, along with any error message.

How are your trying to use login_required in your template? Your initial
paragraph says you are trying to use the login_required *decorator*, but
that is something that applies to Python code, not inside a template.

Regards,
Malcolm

[snew...@gmail.com]

> An explanation of what you expect to happen and what is actually
> happening for a start, along with any error message.
>
> How are your trying to use login_required in your template? Your initial
> paragraph says you are trying to use the login_required *decorator*, but
> that is something that applies to Python code, not inside a template.

I'm sorry, my terminology was probably improper. I think should have
said I'm trying to use login_required as an argument for a generic
view.

What I'm trying to do is have a URL that uses direct_to_template to
send people to my application's main page. I want to require login to
view this page.

If I were doing it with a regular view, I'd just put the
login_required decorator above it. Since the page has no logic that
requires a view to be written, direct_to_template will work nicely.

The documentation says that CRUD generic views take an optional
argument of login_required.

[Nathaniel Whiteinge]

Until Malcolm swoops in with the answer to your question about the
docs, you can use callables in your urlconf to accomplish what you
want.

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
from django.views.generic.simple import direct_to_template

urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^someurl/', login_required(direct_to_template), { 'template':
'template.html', }),
)

- whiteinge

[snew...@gmail.com]

> urlpatterns = patterns('',
> (r'^someurl/', login_required(direct_to_template), { 'template':
> 'template.html', }),
> )

That did it perfectly - thanks!