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| author | Gabriel Hurley <gabehr@gmail.com> | 2011-04-20 20:04:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Gabriel Hurley <gabehr@gmail.com> | 2011-04-20 20:04:46 +0000 |
| commit | 64995cdd63e01b6bf5372cec76c3fe1d2a3cff62 (patch) | |
| tree | 2ba348675977bce24544bf5f092fdb3497afe923 | |
| parent | 24adaf76f14bb32fcd2389b0339fd9cfc2cc98c2 (diff) | |
[1.3.X] Fixed #15794 -- Corrected an error in the docs which indicated applying decorators to any of the view-like methods would work when it will only work reliably with dispatch. Thanks to carbonXT for the report and patch.
Backport of [16056] from trunk.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.3.X@16057 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/class-based-views.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/class-based-views.txt b/docs/topics/class-based-views.txt index 2612ffedba..01d5f2fa65 100644 --- a/docs/topics/class-based-views.txt +++ b/docs/topics/class-based-views.txt @@ -585,11 +585,8 @@ Decorating the class -------------------- To decorate every instance of a class-based view, you need to decorate -the class definition itself. To do this you apply the decorator to one -of the view-like methods on the class; that is, -:meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.dispatch`, or one of the HTTP -methods (:meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.get`, -:meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.post` etc). +the class definition itself. To do this you apply the decorator to the +:meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.dispatch` method of the class. A method on a class isn't quite the same as a standalone function, so you can't just apply a function decorator to the method -- you need to |