django user_passes_test decorator

Question

How do I implement the @user_passes_test(lambda u: u.is_superuser) decorator for class based views? I have used this before for function based views, and I have

Answer 1

You use @method_decorator on the dispatch method of the class:

from django.views.generic import View
from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import user_passes_test

class MyView(View):
    @method_decorator(user_passes_test(lambda u: u.is_superuser))
    def dispatch(self, *args, **kwargs):
        return super(MyView, self).dispatch(*args, **kwargs)