You should be able to do if not auth.user: do_whatever_you_like()
instead of using the decorator. On Thursday, 20 November 2014 07:40:29 UTC-6, Francesco S wrote: > > I am novice in web2py. I am developing an angularjs+web2py web > application. > In addition to using web2py to write the APIs, at least at the first > stage, > I would like to use the web2py authentication class (i.e., no API approach > for authentication) > and to have it working even when calling the APIs using curl. > Anyhow, I do not want to use decorators to force authentication for the > APIs but I need to > handle it manually (e.g., the some APIs should return different results if > the user is > logged or not logged but the APIs must always return a result). > > To clarify, I would like to write something like that: > > auth.settings.allow_basic_login = True > @request.restful() > @auth.requires(True, requires_login=False) # ===> WORKAROUND > def api_auth_test(): > response.view = 'generic.json' > import gluon.contrib.simplejson > def GET(): > if auth.is_logged_in(): > return gluon.contrib.simplejson.dumps(dict(results="I am > logged")) > else: > return gluon.contrib.simplejson.dumps(dict(results="I am NOT > logged")) > return locals() > > > But it seems that the authorization works only if I include an > authorization decorator > which I do not want to add. As a workaround I added the fake decorator > @auth.requires(True, requires_login=False) > and it seems to work but I wonder if I am missing something and if there > is a clean > way to achieve the result. Thanks. > > Francesco > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
