What is the opposite of @login_required decorator for Django views?
As a previous poster mentioned, login not required is the default.
However, sometimes it's useful to block certain views from logged in users -- for instance, it makes no sense for a logged-in user to be able to use the site's signup page. In that case, you could do something like this, based off the existing login_required decorator
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import user_passes_test
from django.conf import settings
LOGGED_IN_HOME = settings.LOGGED_IN_HOME
def login_forbidden(function=None, redirect_field_name=None, redirect_to=LOGGED_IN_HOME):
"""
Decorator for views that checks that the user is NOT logged in, redirecting
to the homepage if necessary.
"""
actual_decorator = user_passes_test(
lambda u: not u.is_authenticated(),
login_url=redirect_to,
redirect_field_name=redirect_field_name
)
if function:
return actual_decorator(function)
return actual_decorator
A bit late, but another simple way to tackle this issue would be to rely on another decorator and add a lambda function:
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import user_passes_test
@user_passes_test(lambda u: u.is_anonymous)
Unfortunately, there's currently no built-in support for this in Django, leaving you at risk of exposing sensitive info when @login_required
is accidentally forgotten.
Here's a solution from one of my projects:
middleware/security.py
:
def public(function):
"""
Decorator for public views that do not require authentication
"""
orig_func = function
while isinstance(orig_func, partial): # if partial - use original function for authorization
orig_func = orig_func.func
orig_func.is_public_view = True
return function
def is_public(function):
try: # cache is found
return function.is_public_view
except AttributeError: # cache is not found
result = function.__module__.startswith('django.') and not function.__module__.startswith('django.views.generic') # Avoid modifying admin and other built-in views
try: # try to recreate cache
function.is_public_view = result
except AttributeError:
pass
return result
class NonpublicMiddleware(object):
def process_view_check_logged(self, request, view_func, view_args, view_kwargs):
return
def process_view(self, request, view_func, view_args, view_kwargs):
while isinstance(view_func, partial): # if partial - use original function for authorization
view_func = view_func.func
request.public = is_public(view_func)
if not is_public(view_func):
if request.user.is_authenticated(): # only extended checks are needed
return self.process_view_check_logged(request, view_func, view_args, view_kwargs)
return self.redirect_to_login(request.get_full_path()) # => login page
def redirect_to_login(self, original_target, login_url=settings.LOGIN_URL):
return HttpResponseRedirect("%s?%s=%s" % (login_url, REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME, urlquote(original_target)))
settings.py
:
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
#...
'middleware.security.NonpublicProfilefullMiddleware',
#...
)
and, finally, view code:
from <projname>.middleware import publi
@public
def some_view(request):
#...
# Login required is added automatically
def some_private_view(request):
#...
Also, you may want to look at "Automatically decorating all views of a django project" blog post