The only method that seems to be working is adding the decorator in urls.py which is ugly.
Is there any way to apply this decorator in the view?
class HomeView(View):
@method_decorator(cache_page(60 * 60))
def dispatch(self, *args, **kwargs):
return super(HomeView, self).dispatch(*args, **kwargs)
I've tried the above but it doesn't seem to be working.
You can use the method_decorator to decorate the view's dispatch() method, according to the docs. The most succinct way is like this:
from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator
from django.views.generic import ListView
@method_decorator(cache_page(60*60), name='dispatch')
class MyListView(ListView):
# Your view code here.
use it in urls.py
url(r'^home_url/?$', cache_page(60*60)(HomeView.as_view())),
The method_decorator approach should work just fine (we are using it in our project). Are you sure this is the problem?
this is the code we are using (with names changed) - seems like yours
class MyClassView(CommonMixin, View):
@method_decorator(cache_page(60*60, cache='cache1'))
def get(self, request):
.....
Let us say we want to cache the result of the myView view -
from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_page
@cache_page(60 * 15)
def myView(request, year, month):
text = "Displaying articles of : %s/%s"%(year, month)
return HttpResponse(text)
and urls.py will be
urlpatterns = patterns('myapp.views',url(r'^articles/(?P<month>\d{2})/(?P<year>\d{4})/', 'myView', name = 'articles'),)
