Django decorate url

Django decorate URL allows you to apply a decorator to a URL pattern.

Install

You can install with pip:

pip install decorate-url

Usage

In Django/Python you can wrap a function like this:

@wrapper
def function(..):
    ...

This is great but only works on a single view. This module instead allows you to decorate an entire url pattern. Have a look at the examples below:

Example 1 in urls.py

from decorate_url import decorated_url
from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import user_passes_test

def email_check(user):
    return user.email.endswith('@example.com')

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^accounts/', include('apps.home.urls')),
    # Admin
    decorated_url(r'^example/', include('apps.example.urls'),
                  wrap=user_passes_test(email_check),
]

In the above example, the user_passes_test decorator is applied to the pattern r'^example/'. It ensures that only users with emails that end in @example.com can access urls with the r'^example/' pattern.

Example 2 in urls.py

from decorate_url import decorated_url
from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^accounts/', include('apps.home.urls')),
    # Admin
    decorated_url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls),
                  wrap=staff_member_required(login_url=settings.LOGIN_URL)),
]

In the above example, the staff_member_required decorator is applied to the pattern r'^admin/'. By setting the login_url to settings.LOGIN_URL, access to the standard admin login page is blocked and forces staff users through the login screen defined by settings.LOGIN_URL.