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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt b/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt index d3ffb894fb..70852ee1e0 100644 --- a/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt +++ b/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt @@ -80,9 +80,9 @@ In a class-based view, this would become:: Because Django's URL resolver expects to send the request and associated arguments to a callable function, not a class, class-based views have an -:meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.as_view` class method which serves as -the callable entry point to your class. The ``as_view`` entry point creates an -instance of your class and calls its +:meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.as_view` class method which returns a +function that can be called when a request arrives for a URL matching the +associated pattern. The function creates an instance of the class and calls its :meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.dispatch` method. ``dispatch`` looks at the request to determine whether it is a ``GET``, ``POST``, etc, and relays the request to a matching method if one is defined, or raises |