From 29bdbc3dbffed238546b1ea1163a95139d50236f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 04:48:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added 'Limiting access to generic views' section to
 docs/authentication.txt

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@1212 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
---
 docs/authentication.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/authentication.txt b/docs/authentication.txt
index e813f78e11..9aa581cf13 100644
--- a/docs/authentication.txt
+++ b/docs/authentication.txt
@@ -282,6 +282,21 @@ As a shortcut, you can use the convenient ``user_passes_test`` decorator::
 Note that ``user_passes_test`` does not automatically check that the ``User``
 is not anonymous.
 
+Limiting access to generic views
+--------------------------------
+
+To limit access to a `generic view`_, write a thin wrapper around the view,
+and point your URLconf to your wrapper instead of the generic view itself.
+For example::
+
+    from django.views.generic.date_based import object_detail
+
+    @login_required
+    def limited_object_detail(*args, **kwargs):
+        return object_detail(*args, **kwargs)
+
+.. _generic view: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/generic_views/
+
 Permissions
 ===========