Django: Tweaking @login_required decorator

Write your own decorator - it's fairly straight forward. In fact, if you look at the Django source for login_required, you should be able to fiddle around with a copy for your own purposes.

def my_login_required(function):    def wrapper(request, *args, **kw):        user=request.user          if not (user.id and request.session.get('code_success')):            return HttpResponseRedirect('/splash/')        else:            return function(request, *args, **kw)    return wrapper

I would recommend using a middleware instead. That will make it easier to drop once you move out of your private beta. There are a couple examples of login required middlewares on djangonsippets:

http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1220/
http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/136/

I would recommend taking one of those and tweaking it to include you beta code logic.

HOW to re-use (tweak) internal Django login_required

For example, you need to allow access to page for only users who passed login_required checks and also are Coaches - and (save) pass coach instance to you view for further processing

decorators.py

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_requiredfrom django.core.urlresolvers import reversefrom django.http import HttpResponseRedirectfrom profiles.models import CoachProfiledef coach_required(function):    def wrapper(request, *args, **kwargs):        decorated_view_func = login_required(request)        if not decorated_view_func.user.is_authenticated():            return decorated_view_func(request)  # return redirect to signin        coach = CoachProfile.get_by_email(request.user.email)        if not coach:  # if not coach redirect to home page            return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('home', args=(), kwargs={}))        else:            return function(request, *args, coach=coach, **kwargs)    wrapper.__doc__ = function.__doc__    wrapper.__name__ = function.__name__    return wrapper

views.py

@coach_requireddef view_master_schedule(request, coach):    """coach param is passed from decorator"""    context = {'schedule': coach.schedule()}    return render(request, 'template.html', context)