Django (mod_wsgi) - HttpBasicAuthentication using view decorator - AttributeError

Question

I'm writing a small app. I wish to use a view decorator I found. This here is the snippet, and this is a post describing its usage. I have an Apache server (2.2) running, and Django is up-to-date. I've decorated a view, and when trying to GET it, an AttributeError occurs:

Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://localhost/redb/test/

Django Version: 1.5.1
Python Version: 2.7.5
Installed Applications:
('django.contrib.auth',
 'django.contrib.contenttypes',
 'django.contrib.sessions',
 'django.contrib.messages',
 'django.contrib.staticfiles',
 'django.contrib.admin',
 'django.contrib.admindocs',
 'redb_app')
Installed Middleware:
('django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware')

Traceback:
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in get_response
  187.                 response = middleware_method(request, response)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\middleware\common.py" in process_response
  109.         if response.status_code == 404:

Exception Type: AttributeError at /redb/test/
Exception Value: 'function' object has no attribute 'status_code'

This is how I'm using it:

@logged_in_or_basicauth
def test_handler(request):
    return HttpResponse("Test!")

Thanks!

Answer 1

The decorator takes an argument, so you must call the decorator, even if you do not provide the argument realm and let it default to "".

@logged_in_or_basicauth()
def test_handler(request):
    return HttpResponse("Test!")