RedirectView providing different request object to decorator

[connexion2000]

I have my own simple decorator:

def ensure_user_has_profile(view_func):
    def _decorator(request, *args, **kwargs):
        if request.user:
            if request.user.is_authenticated():
                if not hasattr(request.user, 'profile'):
                    profile = Profile()
                    profile.user = request.user
                    profile.save()

        response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
        return response

    return wraps(view_func)(_decorator)

However when RedirectView is decorated with above decorator it causes an error:

'HomeView' object has no attribute 'user'

to make it work I need to access user by typing: request.request.user. Then it works with RedirectView, but not with other views.

[Marten Kenbeek]

What you pass as request is actually the view instance. You cannot decorate a class method directly if your _decorator() function does not accept self as its first argument. Instead, you need to use method_decorator or decorate the view function returned by View.as_view().

This is also explained in the documentation on ​decorating class-based views.