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Add simple decorator example

Github issue #358
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Priit Laes 13 years ago committed by Ron DuPlain
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docs/views.rst

@ -144,14 +144,22 @@ routing system it does not make much sense to decorate the class itself.
Instead you either have to decorate the return value of
:meth:`~flask.views.View.as_view` by hand::
view = rate_limited(UserAPI.as_view('users'))
def user_required(f):
"""Checks whether user is logged in or raises error 401."""
def decorator(*args, **kwargs):
if not g.user:
abort(401)
return f(*args, **kwargs)
return decorator
view = user_required(UserAPI.as_view('users'))
app.add_url_rule('/users/', view_func=view)
Starting with Flask 0.8 there is also an alternative way where you can
specify a list of decorators to apply in the class declaration::
class UserAPI(MethodView):
decorators = [rate_limited]
decorators = [user_required]
Due to the implicit self from the caller's perspective you cannot use
regular view decorators on the individual methods of the view however,

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