Ack. Well that would explain why it only caused a problem in the one
spot!
Thanks for the assistance!
Monte
On Sunday, March 18, 2012 4:10:49 PM UTC-7, Anthony wrote:
>
> As Alan suggests, you slightly mis-copied the code from the book -- it
> should be:
>
> @auth.requires_login()
> def documents():
>
>
> Note the parentheses.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Sunday, March 18, 2012 6:21:54 PM UTC-4, Monte Milanuk wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Working my way thru the wiki app demo in the online manual... I kept
>> getting a weird error like this:
>>
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "gluon/restricted.py", line 205, in restricted
>>> File "E:\web2py\applications\mywiki\controllers/default.py", line 31, in
>>> <module>
>>> TypeError: requires_login() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)
>>>
>>>
>> whenever I attempted to access any of the views for this app. Only on
>> line 31 of the controller 'default.py', right before 'def documents():'.
>>
>> Here is the code listing from the 'trouble ticket':
>>
>> "edit an existing wiki page"
>>> this_page = db.page(request.args(0)) or redirect(URL('index'))
>>> form = crud.update(db.page, this_page, next = URL('show',
>>> args=request.args))
>>> return dict(form=form)
>>>
>>> @auth.requires_login
>>>
>>> def documents():
>>> "browse & edit all documents attached to a given page"
>>> page = db.page(request.args(0)) or redirect(URL('index'))
>>> db.document.page_id.default = page.id
>>>
>>>
>> I went back thru the code several times, and I couldn't seem to find
>> anything specifically wrong that jumped out at me...
>>
>> ...but when I commented out line 31 entirely - everything began working.
>> Eh?!?
>>
>> Could someone explain to me why that one line, right there, would cause
>> things to break when the decorator is used elsewhere in the same controller
>> 'default.py' several times with no problems?
>>
>> There are any number of things I don't fully understand yet, but most of
>> them 'just work' so I've kept moving on, learning as I go. This one has me
>> kinda stumped - I don't *think* its a typo on my part, though thats
>> certainly the most likely cause. If it is, I'm not seeing it though, at
>> least not right there in the section of code the trouble ticket
>> high-lighted.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Monte
>>
>>
