How to use login_required in django rest view

Question

I am trying to use a custom login url in specific view

@login_required(login_url=\'/account/login/\')
class home(APIView):
    renderer_classes = (TemplateHT         


        

Answer 1

Decorators can only be used on functions, not classes.

However, for decorating class-based views the django docs suggest this:

Decorating the class

To decorate every instance of a class-based view, you need to decorate the class definition itself. To do this you apply the decorator to the dispatch() method of the class.

A method on a class isn’t quite the same as a standalone function, so you can’t just apply a function decorator to the method – you need to transform it into a method decorator first. The method_decorator decorator transforms a function decorator into a method decorator so that it can be used on an instance method. For example:

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required 
from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator 
from django.views.generic import TemplateView

class ProtectedView(TemplateView):
    template_name = 'secret.html'

    @method_decorator(login_required)
    def dispatch(self, *args, **kwargs):
        return super(ProtectedView, self).dispatch(*args, **kwargs)