Fixed #903 -- Added login_url argument to user_passes_test view decorator. Didn't add it to login_required decorator because that would turn login_required into a callable decorator, which would break backwards compatibility.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@1440 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

django/views/auth/login.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from django.models.core import sites
 from django.utils.httpwrappers import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
 
 REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME = 'next'
+LOGIN_URL = '/accounts/login/'
 
 def login(request):
     "Displays the login form and handles the login action."
@@ -39,10 +40,10 @@ def logout(request, next_page=None):
         # Redirect to this page until the session has been cleared.
         return HttpResponseRedirect(next_page or request.path)
 
-def logout_then_login(request):
+def logout_then_login(request, login_url=LOGIN_URL):
     "Logs out the user if he is logged in. Then redirects to the log-in page."
-    return logout(request, '/accounts/login/')
+    return logout(request, login_url)
 
-def redirect_to_login(next):
+def redirect_to_login(next, login_url=LOGIN_URL):
     "Redirects the user to the login page, passing the given 'next' page"
-    return HttpResponseRedirect('/accounts/login/?%s=%s' % (REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME, next))
+    return HttpResponseRedirect('%s?%s=%s' % (login_url, REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME, next))

django/views/decorators/auth.py

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-def user_passes_test(test_func):
+from django.views.auth import login
+
+def user_passes_test(test_func, login_url=login.LOGIN_URL):
     """
     Decorator for views that checks that the user passes the given test,
     redirecting to the log-in page if necessary. The test should be a callable
@@ -6,10 +8,9 @@ def user_passes_test(test_func):
     """
     def _dec(view_func):
         def _checklogin(request, *args, **kwargs):
-            from django.views.auth.login import redirect_to_login
             if test_func(request.user):
                 return view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
-            return redirect_to_login(request.path)
+            return login.redirect_to_login(request.path, login_url)
         return _checklogin
     return _dec
 

docs/authentication.txt

@@ -314,6 +314,26 @@ Here's the same thing, using Python 2.4's decorator syntax::
 Note that ``user_passes_test`` does not automatically check that the ``User``
 is not anonymous.
 
+**New in the Django development version**: ``user_passes_test()`` takes an
+optional ``login_url`` argument, which lets you specify the URL for your login
+page (``/accounts/login/`` by default).
+
+Example in Python 2.3 syntax::
+
+    from django.views.decorators.auth import user_passes_test
+
+    def my_view(request):
+        # ...
+    my_view = user_passes_test(lambda u: u.has_perm('polls.can_vote'), login_url='/login/')(my_view)
+
+Example in Python 2.4 syntax::
+
+    from django.views.decorators.auth import user_passes_test
+
+    @user_passes_test(lambda u: u.has_perm('polls.can_vote'), login_url='/login/')
+    def my_view(request):
+        # ...
+
 Limiting access to generic views
 --------------------------------