Getting local function variables

Question

I am trying to get a local variable from a decorator. Example:

def needs_privilege(privilege, project=None):
    """Check whether the logged-in user is authorised based on the
    given privilege

    @type privilege: Privilege object, id, or str
    @param privilege: The requested privilege"""

    def validate(func, self, *args, **kwargs):
        """Validator of needs_privillige"""
        try: check(self.user, privilege, project)
        except AccessDenied:
            return abort(status_code=401)
        else: 
            return func(self, *args, **kwargs)

    return decorator(validate)

After registration of the function, for example:

 @needs_privilege("some_privilege")
 def some_function():
     pass

I would like to get the 'privilige' variable (which uses validate ()) from some_function. After searching for more than one hour, I feel pretty lost. Is it possible?

Edit : Let me describe my problem in more detail: can I get the string "some_prvilege" without executing some_function? Sort of:

a = getattr(module, 'somefunction')
print a.decorator_arguments

? Thanks for helping me so far!

Answer 1

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def needs_privilege(privilege, project=None):
    """Check whether the logged-in user is authorised based on the
    given privilege

    @type privilege: Privilege object, id, or str
    @param privilege: The requested privilege"""

    def validate(func, self, *args, **kwargs):
        """Validator of needs_privillige"""
        try: check(self.user, privilege, project)
        except AccessDenied:
            return abort(status_code=401)
        else:
            return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
    validate.privelege = privelege
    return decorator(validate)

, :

def needs_privilege(privilege, project=None):
    def validate(func):
        def new_func(self, *args, **kwargs):
            try: 
                check(self.user, privilege, project)
            except AccessDenied:
                return abort(status_code=401)
            else:
                return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
        new_func.privilege = privilege
        return new_func
    return validate

Answer 2

:

def needs_privilege(privilege, project=None):
    """Check whether the logged-in user is authorised based on the
    given privilege

    @type privilege: Privilege object, id, or str
    @param privilege: The requested privilege"""

    def validate(func, self, *args, **kwargs):
        """Validator of needs_privillige"""
        try: check(self.user, privilege, project)
        except AccessDenied:
            return abort(status_code=401)
        else: 
            return func(self, privilege, *args, **kwargs)

    return decorator(validate)

@needs_privilege("some_privilege")
def some_function(privilege):
    pass

Answer 3

Your problem will be much simpler if you do not need a module decorator. If you do not need a module decorator, you can write a decorator as follows:

def needs_privilege(privilege, project=None):
    def validate(func):
        def _validate(self, *args, **kwargs):
            return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
        _validate.decorator_args=(privilege,project)
        return _validate
    return validate

@needs_privilege("some_privilege")
def some_function(self):
    pass

a = some_function
print(a.decorator_args)
# ('some_privilege', None)

Answer 4

Functions are objects that can also have attributes. You can set attributes in the decorator. Here is an example:

class TestClass(object):
    def needs_privilege(privilege, project=None):
        def wrapper(func):
            def validate(self, *args, **kwargs):
                """Validator of needs_privillige"""
                print 'validator check for %s' % privilege
                return func(*args, **kwargs)
            validate.privilege = privilege
            return validate

        return wrapper

    @needs_privilege("foo")
    def bar():
        print "called"

>>> test.TestClass().bar()
validator check for foo
called
>>> test.TestClass.bar.privilege
'foo'
>>> test.TestClass().bar.privilege
'foo'