Django Class-Based Views with Custom Decorators: Unexpected 500 scenarios on POST Requests
I'm working on a personal project and I've been banging my head against this for hours. I'm working on a Django application using class-based views and I've created a custom decorator to handle user permissions. However, I'm working with a 500 Internal Server behavior when making POST requests to one of my views, and I'm not sure why. The decorator is supposed to check if the user has the right permissions before allowing access to the view's methods. Here's a simplified version of my decorator: ```python from functools import wraps from django.http import HttpResponseForbidden def permission_required(view_func): @wraps(view_func) def _wrapped_view(request, *args, **kwargs): if not request.user.has_perm('myapp.my_permission'): return HttpResponseForbidden('You do not have permission to access this view.') return view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) return _wrapped_view ``` I've applied this decorator to my view as follows: ```python from django.views import View class MyView(View): @permission_required def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs): # Process the request here return JsonResponse({'success': True}) ``` When I try to send a POST request to this view, the server responds with a 500 behavior. However, when I check the logs, there's no explicit behavior message—just a generic 'Internal Server behavior'. I've confirmed that the decorator is being applied, because if I remove it, I get a 403 Forbidden behavior as expected when the user lacks the necessary permission. I've tried adding print statements inside the decorator to see if it’s being executed and to log the request user, but they don't appear in the console for the POST request. I'm using Django 3.2.8 and I suspect it might be something related to how the decorator interacts with the class-based view methods or the request object itself. Could anyone guide to understand why I'm working with this 500 behavior? What troubleshooting steps can I take to diagnose the scenario further? My development environment is macOS. Any help would be greatly appreciated! What am I doing wrong?