Django authentication and Ajax - URLs that require login

Question

I want to add some Ajax-niceness to my Django-coded website.

In my Django code, I use the @login_required decorator from django.contrib.auth.deco

Answer 1

Here is proposed version of the decorator with wrap.__doc__ , wrap.__name__

from functools import wraps

def ajax_login_required(function):
    def wrap(request, *args, **kwargs):
        if request.user.is_authenticated():
            return function(request, *args, **kwargs)
        json = simplejson.dumps({ 'not_authenticated': True })
        return HttpResponse(json, mimetype='application/json')  
    wrap.__doc__ = function.__doc__
    wrap.__name__ = function.__name__
    return wrap