Decorators¶
- @decorator¶
Transforms a flat wrapper into a decorator with or without arguments. @decorator passes special call object as a first argument to a wrapper.
Here is a simple logging decorator:
@decorator def log(call): print call._func.__name__, call._args, call._kwargs return call()
call object also supports by name arg introspection and passing additional arguments to decorated function:
@decorator def with_phone(call): # call.request gets actual request value upon function call request = call.request # ... phone = Phone.objects.get(number=request.GET['phone']) # phone arg is added to *args passed to decorated function return call(phone) @with_phone def some_view(request, phone): # ... some code using phone return # ...
A better practice would be adding keyword argument not positional. This makes such decorators more composable:
@decorator def with_phone(call): # ... return call(phone=phone) @decorator def with_user(call): # ... return call(user=user) @with_phone @with_user def some_view(request, phone=None, user=None): # ... return # ...
If a function wrapped with @decorator has arguments other than call, then decorator with arguments is created:
@decorator def joining(call, sep): return sep.join(call())
You can see more examples in flow and debug submodules source code.