Multiple decorators for a view in Django: Execution order

Question

I am trying to decorate a Django view by two decorators, one for checking login, and one for checking is_active.

The first one is the built-in @login_required<

Answer 1

Decorators are applied in the order they appear in the source. Thus, your second example:

@login_required
@active_required
def foo(request):
    ...

is equivalent to the following:

def foo(request):
    ...
foo = login_required(active_required(foo))

Thus, if the code of one decorator depends on something set by (or ensured by) another, you have to put the dependent decorator "inside" the depdended-on decorator.

However, as Chris Pratt notes, you should avoid having decorator dependencies; when necessary, create a single new decorator that calls both in the right order.