My current task involves creating a simple decorator that will allow us to apply basic HTTP Authentication to specific django views.
This is the decorator I have implemented:
def basic_auth(func):
def process_request(self, request):
if request.META.get("HTTP_AUTHORIZATION"):
encoded_auth = request.META.get("HTTP_AUTHORIZATION")
encoded_auth = encoded_auth[6:]
auth = base64.b64decode(encoded_auth)
auth_email = auth.split(":")[0]
auth_password = auth.split(":")[1]
if (auth_email == settings.BASIC_AUTH_EMAIL) and (auth_password == settings.EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD):
func()
else:
return HttpResponseForbidden("Forbidden")
return process_request
I am using this decorator to decorate a view in the following manner:
@csrf_exempt
@basic_auth
def user_find(request):
args = json.loads(request.body, object_hook=utils._datetime_decoder)
providedEmail = args['providedEmail']
try:
user = User.objects.get(email=providedEmail)
user_dict = {'exists': 'true', 'name': user.first_name, 'email': user.email}
return HttpResponse(json.dumps(user_dict))
except User.DoesNotExist:
user_dict = {'exists': 'false'}
return HttpResponse(json.dumps(user_dict))
However, I am encountering an unexpected issue. The view functions perfectly fine without the decorator, but fails with it applied, showing the error message:
process_request() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
Can you shed some light on what might be causing this problem?