Fixed #2629 -- Added a permission_required decorator to

django.contrib.auth.decorator. Thanks, dummy@habmalnefrage.de.


git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@3779 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/authentication.txt b/docs/authentication.txt
index f161e9d357..e7adbfb6bf 100644
--- a/docs/authentication.txt
+++ b/docs/authentication.txt
@@ -456,6 +456,10 @@ As a shortcut, you can use the convenient ``user_passes_test`` decorator::
         # ...
     my_view = user_passes_test(lambda u: u.has_perm('polls.can_vote'))(my_view)
 
+We are using this particular test as a relatively simple example, however be
+aware that if you just want to test if a permission is available to a user,
+you can use the ``permission_required()`` decorator described below.
+
 Here's the same thing, using Python 2.4's decorator syntax::
 
     from django.contrib.auth.decorators import user_passes_test
@@ -488,6 +492,24 @@ Example in Python 2.4 syntax::
     def my_view(request):
         # ...
 
+The permission_required decorator
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Since checking whether a user has a particular permission available to them is a
+relatively common operation, Django provides a shortcut for that particular
+case: the ``permission_required()`` decorator. Using this decorator, the
+earlier example can be written as::
+
+    from django.contrib.auth.decorators import permission_required
+     
+    def my_view(request):
+        # ...
+     
+    my_view = permission_required('polls.can_vote')(my_view)
+
+Note that ``permission_required()`` also takes an optional ``login_url``
+parameter.
+
 Limiting access to generic views
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