How would decorators work with UnicornView ?

[saarrooiii]

I recently started implementing Django-Uniorn on a personal project and I'M LOVING IT so far. However I'm having a litle problem where I try to implement a simple decorator (similar to login_required) and I can't get it working with my UnicornView component. The view seems to ignore (when implementing it with @method_decorator(login_required, name='dispatch')) and I've tried implementing it in other ways but I just can't get it to work.

Any help is welcome !

I'm also very excited with unicorn and looking forward to start contributing and trying to improve it once I have a better understanding of how everything workds !!!

[adamghill]

Are you trying to decorate a particular method in a UnicornView class? If you can give me some sample code I can dig into what might be going on!

[saarrooiii]

I'm trying to decorate the whole component, so that when it's called, if the user is not authenticated, unicorn triggers a javascript function I have that shows a modal that then the user can use to then login / sign up (as I've read in the documentation that unicorn can call js functions via the self.call("", "") method.

I haven't figured out how to create that custom decorator, but I've tried this:

from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
from django_unicorn.components import UnicornView 

@method_decorator(login_required, name='dispatch')
class LikeView(UnicornView):
    product = None # Product is assigned when calling the component {% unicorn 'like' <myproduct> %}
    template_name = "app/components/product/like.html"

    def like(self):
        self.request.user.favorites.add(self.product)

What currently happens when I try to like a product without being authenticated is that I recive an error message "AttributeError: 'AnonymousUser' object has no attribute 'favorites'" which indicates me that login_required is not being called, as far as I understand it...

I've also tried decorating my like method with "@login_required" right above it, but nothing seems to change.

Thanks a lot for the response !

[adamghill]

This issue seems similar to what you are looking to do. For my own code, I tend to override mount and do an auth check there (a decorator should work as well) since that will get called before any action gets called.

[saarrooiii]

Thanks !!! I'll try to implement it that way.

[adamghill]

I'm going to close this issue because I think there is a way forward. However, let me know if I could add something to make this work better. Or if I should update the docs with an example, maybe?