On 8/4/2010 10:52 AM, Dan Gentry wrote: > When I attempt to use the decorator logic, the view becomes this: > > views.py > @institution_required > def list_type(request): > > inst_id=request.session.get('inst_id',None) > > queryset = RecordType.objects.filter(institution=inst_id) > return object_list(request, queryset, paginate_by = 12) > > I don't make any changes to urls.py, but the error is > "TemplateSyntaxError at /index > Caught ImproperlyConfigured while rendering: The included urlconf > person.urls doesn't have any patterns in it" > However, when I take out the decorator, all of the urls work as > expected. > > urls.py does import * from views.py >
Your decorator takes two arguments - its signature is institution_required(fn, redirect_field_name=REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME) But the decorator mechanism only allows you to specify one argument (the decorated function). There is no way to specify anything OTHER than the default value for the redirect_field_name argument ... Therefore if you want to use decorators for this application you will have to write something more complex still: a function that takes a single redirect_field_name argument and /returns a decorator/ that can be applied to views. Then you would call it as @institution_required("Some_field_name") def list_type(request): ... Your call to institution_required should return a decorator. That takes the decorated function as its single argument and returns the decorated function. This is getting a little complex for a beginner. regards Steve -- I'm no expert. "ex" == "has-been"; "spurt" == "drip under pressure" "expert" == "has-been drip under pressure". -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.