Commit 4f6c3643 authored by Timo Graham's avatar Timo Graham
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[1.3.X] Fixed #17390 - Added a note to topics/auth.txt regarding how to... 

[1.3.X] Fixed #17390 - Added a note to topics/auth.txt regarding how to decorate class-based generic views; thanks zsiciarz for the patch.

Backport of r17564 from trunk.

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docs/topics/auth.txt

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Limiting access to generic views

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To limit access to a :doc:`generic view </ref/generic-views>`, write a thin

wrapper around the view, and point your URLconf to your wrapper instead of the

generic view itself. For example::

Controlling access to a :doc:`class-based generic view </ref/class-based-views>`

is done by decorating the :meth:`View.dispatch <django.views.generic.base.View.dispatch>`

method on the class. See :ref:`decorating-class-based-views` for the details.



Function-based generic views

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



To limit access to a :doc:`function-based generic view </ref/generic-views>`,

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

docs/topics/class-based-views.txt

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want every instance of a view to be decorated, you need to take a

different approach.



.. _decorating-class-based-views:



Decorating the class

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