Django message framework and login_required

Question

I\'m using the Django Message Framework to show messages to users as well as the @login_required decorator on one of my views. So if a user tries to access a certai

Answer 1

This is an old question but I still have it 10 years later. Here is the solution I came up with. It's kind of hacky but it's only 7 lines of code including the decorator. You use 2 functions.

The first is mapped to the URL path. It checks to see if the user is logged in. If the user is not logged in, it sets a message. Regardless of the user's login state, it returns with a call to the second function.

The second function does what the standard view would have done but it has the decorator on it.

def content(request):
    if request.user.is_anonymous:
        messages.warning(request, 'You must log in to view the course content.')
    return content2(request)

@login_required
def content2(request):
    return render(request, 'path/template.html')

I am assuming that your log in template already displays messages.

Like I said, it's a bit of a hack but it works really well.

I am using Django version 3.0.6