Django decorators

I am developing a page with Django and I had one interesting requirement: limit the number of users. The idea is to let a fixed number of users use the site and show a message telling the others to wait. I will like to share how I did it.

We need to check in every view used by a user. Instead of repeating the same code, the easiest way is to add a decorator for each function. Is really similar to AoP.

decorators.py:

from django.conf import settings
from django.shortcuts import redirect

MAX_NUMBERS_OF_USERS = getattr(settings, 'MAX_NUMBERS_OF_USERS', 100)

def check_user(view_function):
    def _wrapped_view_func(request, *args, **kwargs):
        auth_user = request.user
        
        if auth_user.id <= MAX_NUMBERS_OF_USERS:
            return view_function(request, *args, **kwargs)
        return redirect('coming_soon')
    return _wrapped_view_func

views.py:

from app.decorators import check_user
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
from django.shortcuts import render

@login_required
@check_user
def restricted_view(request):
    #Do stuff

def coming_soon(request):
    return render(request, 'coming_soon.html', {})

And that’s it ! Easy, clean and simple ! You can do more complex stuffs like logging.