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Decorator for enabling views only when developing

Author:
damd
Posted:
August 6, 2010
Language:
Python
Version:
1.2
Score:
2 (after 4 ratings)

This is a decorator which essentially replaces the decorated view with a view that always raises Http404 (File Not Found) when settings.DEBUG is set to True. 

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def when_developing(view):
    """
    Usage:

    @when_developing
    def delete_all_users(request):
        User.objects.all().delete()
        return HttpResponse('Successfully deleted all users.')
    """

    from django.conf import settings

    def f404(*args, **kwargs):
        from django.http import Http404
        raise Http404

    def inner(*args, **kwargs):
        return view(*args, **kwargs)

    if not settings.DEBUG:
        return f404
    return inner

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Comments

bkeating (on August 6, 2010):

Excellent! Perfect timing --already using it.

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