There's actually a pretty good implementation of a class decorator here:
https://github.com/agiliq/Django-parsley/blob/master/parsley/decorators.py
I actually think this is a pretty interesting implementation. Because it subclasses the class it decorates, it will behave exactly like this class in things like isinstance
checks.
It has an added benefit: it's not uncommon for the __init__
statement in a custom django Form to make modifications or additions to self.fields
so it's better for changes to self.fields
to happen after all of __init__
has run for the class in question.
Very clever.
However, in your class you actually want the decoration to alter the constructor, which I don't think is a good use case for a class decorator.