Trouble understanding decorator

Question

I want to check if the user is authenticated before he/she can access the method, so I wrote a decorator named

authorize

but only the decorator code is executed and even if the user is authenticated, the method is not called after it.
here are the method and the decorator codes:

@authorize

def post(self, **kw):

    # store data in database after authentication done using @authorize





def authorize(f):

    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):

        secret_key = config.get('auth_secret_key')

        auth_message = config.get('auth_message')

        if 'HTTP_TOKEN' not in request.environ:

            abort(401, detail='Authentication failed', passthrough='json')

        gibberish = request.environ['HTTP_TOKEN']

        if triple_des(secret_key).decrypt(gibberish, padmode=2).decode() != auth_message:

            abort(401, detail='Authentication failed', passthrough='json')

    return wrapper

If user has authentication problem,

401

is raised and request is aborted but if he is authenticated, the

post

method is not called. BTW, its my first time writing decorator so I might be completely wrong. Thanks for any answers

Answer 1

You need to actually call the function within your wrapper.

f(*args, **kwargs)

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