django - cache_page with Class Based Views

Question

I'm trying to do cache_page with class based views (TemplateView) and i'm not able to. I followed instructions here:

Django--URL Caching Failing for Class Based Views

as well as here:

https://github.com/msgre/hazard/blob/master/hazard/urls.py

But I get this error:

cache_page has a single mandatory positional argument: timeout

I read the code for cache_page and it has the following:

if len(args) != 1 or callable(args[0]):
    raise TypeError("cache_page has a single mandatory positional argument: timeout")
cache_timeout = args[0]

which means it wont allow more than 1 argument. Is there any other way to get cache_page to work?? I have been digging into this for sometime...

It seems like the previous solutions wont work any longer

Answer 1

According to the caching docs, the correct way to cache a CBV in the URLs is:

from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_page

url(r'^my_url/?$', cache_page(60*60)(MyView.as_view())),

Note that the answer you linked to is out of date. The old way of using the decorator has been removed (changeset).