TypeError: 'bool' object is not callable

[jerrypy]

I followed your book to learn flask, it works very well until I used current_user , I got

AttributeError: 'bool' object has no attribute '__call__'

this kind of error. I thought maybe there're some mistakes in my code, so I download your code from github, and checkout to branch 8c, but same thing happend, check traceback message below:

root@fb-kali:/opt/flasky# python manage.py runserver --port 8888 --host 0.0.0.0 --debug
 * Running on http://0.0.0.0:8888/
 * Restarting with reloader
127.0.0.1 - - [16/Sep/2015 16:29:42] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 500 -
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/pyshared/flask/app.py", line 1836, in __call__
    return self.wsgi_app(environ, start_response)
  File "/usr/share/pyshared/flask/app.py", line 1820, in wsgi_app
    response = self.make_response(self.handle_exception(e))
  File "/usr/share/pyshared/flask/app.py", line 1403, in handle_exception
    reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
  File "/usr/share/pyshared/flask/app.py", line 1817, in wsgi_app
    response = self.full_dispatch_request()
  File "/usr/share/pyshared/flask/app.py", line 1477, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
  File "/usr/share/pyshared/flask/app.py", line 1381, in handle_user_exception
    reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
  File "/usr/share/pyshared/flask/app.py", line 1473, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.preprocess_request()
  File "/usr/share/pyshared/flask/app.py", line 1666, in preprocess_request
    rv = func()
  File "/opt/flasky/app/auth/views.py", line 14, in before_request
    if current_user.is_authenticated() \
TypeError: 'bool' object is not callable

Here is the version of some related package I'm using:

Python 2.7.9
Flask==0.10.1
Flask-Bootstrap==3.3.5.6
Flask-Login==0.3.0
Flask-Mail==0.9.1
Flask-Migrate==1.5.1
Flask-Moment==0.5.1
Flask-SQLAlchemy==2.0
Flask-Script==2.0.5
Flask-WTF==0.12
Jinja2==2.7.3
WTForms==2.0.2
Werkzeug==0.9.6

Thank you so much if you can help me solve this problem.

[jerrypy]

I've already solved this problem.
Since 0.3.0, Flask-Login has set is_active is_authenticated is_anonymous to property in UserMixin, so we should use current_user.is_authenticated instead of current_user.is_authenticated().

[miguelgrinberg]

@jerrypy Wow, that is a pretty awful change that is going to break every application. Thanks for doing the research. Not sure how I'll handle this, need to think about it.

[ghost]

@jerrypy Thanks, I also met this problem some days ago.

[florianperrenet]

also had this problem, thanks @jerrypy for solving this!

[miguelgrinberg]

The repo has been updated to work with Flask-Login 0.3.0. I've added an errata entry for this problem on the flaskbook.com site.

[fireflystar]

hello @miguelgrinberg ,i git clone flasky project on github,i met this problem today。
do we have a new version of flasky ? how could we get it?

[goshlanguage]

@jerrypy Thank you!!!

[volosovich]

@jerrypy Thank you very much!!!

[JJVvV]

@jerrypy Thanks very much ! It botherd me several hours.

[ResidentMario]

The docs are wrong! If possible please update the documentation (at https://flask-login.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#your-user-class) to document this change, I had to employ Google-fu to solve this issue.

[miguelgrinberg]

@ResidentMario I agree with you. In my opinion this change causes more trouble than its worth, and if it was up to me I would have never made it. Unfortunately the maintainer of Flask-Login has different views, he seems to not be too concerned about backwards compatibility.

I have updated the Flasky repository, and also added the changes to the book errata. Whenever O'Reilly reprints the book, the correct code will be used. I know it isn't much, but unfortunately I cannot do more from my side.

Hopefully Google will send people having the problem to this page, where the situation is explained.

[macfire]

@jerrypy Thank you.

[ajohnclark]

Face palm. Thanks Jerrypy/everyone.

[popadotstudio]

This is a silly change, from getter function to property -- broke site instantly for no good reason.

[miguelgrinberg]

@veryxcit I'm with you 100%. Really sorry (and not happy at all) that Flask-Login rolled out this change.