On 3/7/07, chris e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In my web app I have a need to verify that there is an authenticated
> user with appropriate privileges before displaying any page in the
> app. If there is not an authenticated user, then I need to display an
> appropriate warninginsufficient privileges page. Currently the way I
> have implemented this is to write a base controller class that
> provides the __before__ method which is then used as the parent class
> for all other controllers in the app. However, I've run into the issue
> that from the __before__ method you cannot simply return content, and
> have it displayed to the user. It appears that you have to do a
> redirect_to, which ends up doing a redirect and changing the URL. What
> I would like to do is render a page from the __before__ method, and
> have that be what is displayed to the user(similar to the way that
> HTTP exceptions are handled). Is there a way to do this??
You can put it in the base template .__call__ method:
if not_logged_in:
redirect_to_login()
if insufficient privilege:
abort(401, "You're outta here, bozo.") # In pylons.helpers
return WSGIController.__call__(self, environ, start_response)
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Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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