method_decorator unused?

[joshuar500]

first, just wanna say thank you for making this project.

i noticed that method_decorator is assigned [jwt_required] but it isn't used? not sure if i'm reading it correctly, but maybe it belongs above the put and delete requests as @method_decorator by default? or is it up to the user to decide...

[karec]

Hi @joshuar500

method_decorator comes from flask-restFul itself (https://flask-restful.readthedocs.io/en/0.3.5/extending.html#resource-method-decorators), it's used to apply decorators to all methods of the resource.

A good thing to know is that if you want to apply this decorator only to some methods (for example like you said on put and delete requests only), you can use a mapping like this:

method_decorators = {
    "put": [jwt_required],
    "delete": [jwt_required]
}

You can see how this property is used in flask-restFul's source code here: https://github.com/flask-restful/flask-restful/blob/master/flask_restful/__init__.py#L572

Hope this has answered your question !

[joshuar500]

Awesome! Thank you very much!