change login_required

(In [1440]) Fixed #903 -- Added login_url argument to user_passes_test view decorator. Didn't add it to login_required decorator because that would turn login_required into a callable decorator, which would break backwards compatibility.

I added a login_url argument to the user_passes_test view decorator. See the new docs at http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/authentication/#limiting-access-to-logged-in-users-that-pass-a-test .

why is backwards compatibility an issue? :-/

This doesn't actually fix the problem with login_required.

As a previous user suggested somewhere else, perhaps a different approach that would save backwards compatibility would be to allow LOGIN_URL to be settable in settings.py.

For now, the best workaround would be to create your own decorator:

 from django.contrib.auth.decorators import user_passes_test
 login_needed = user_passes_test(lambda u: not u.is_anonymous(), login_url='/login/')

A fix should still be looked into however - it works as a workaround, but shouldn't be a hard and fast solution.

If the current behavior is an issue, see the comment by umbrae@gmail.com for a workaround.