# Decorating entire views

Waffle provides decorators to wrap an entire view in a flag or switch. (Due to their always-random nature, no decorator is provided for samples.)

When the flag or switch is active, the view executes normally. When it is inactive, the view returns a 404. Optionally, you can provide a view or URL name where the decorator can redirect to if you don’t want to show a 404 page when the flag or switch is inactive.

## Flags

    from waffle.decorators import waffle_flag

    @waffle_flag('flag_name')
    def myview(request):
        pass

    @waffle_flag('flag_name', 'url_name_to_redirect_to')
    def myotherview(request):
        pass

## Switches

    from waffle.decorators import waffle_switch

    @waffle_switch('switch_name')
    def myview(request):
        pass

    @waffle_switch('switch_name', 'url_name_to_redirect_to')
    def myotherview(request):
        pass

## Inverting Decorators

Both `waffle_flag` and `waffle_switch` can be reversed (i.e. they will raise a 404 if the flag or switch is active, and otherwise execute the view normally) by prepending the name of the flag or switch with an exclamation point: `!`.

    @waffle_switch('!switch_name')
    def myview(request):
        """Only runs if 'switch_name' is OFF."""