That makes heaps of sense, thanks! On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:49 PM Daniel Roseman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday, 13 March 2017 18:36:46 UTC, Frederik Creemers wrote: > > Django views are just functions that take a request, and possibly some > other args, and return a response. To get such a view from a class based > view, you can `as_view()` on it. Why is that? Wouldn't it make the code > neater to just implement `__call__` on the views? What was the reing behind > having `as_view`? > > > A search in django-developers would probably reveal the extremely > long-running thread that led to that specific implementation. > > But, briefly, allowing the CBVs to be instantiated in the URLs would > render them non-thread safe. Any attribute set on the object would persist > across all future requests, leading to information leakage and other very > bad behaviour. The `as_view()` construct is a (mostly successful) effort to > make it almost impossible to break the thread safety of the view objects. > -- > DR. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-users/ih8_zwLQVgc/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/1b6323e5-ca93-4ccf-91d5-da7d5a72f6b7%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/1b6323e5-ca93-4ccf-91d5-da7d5a72f6b7%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAJA%3DsDTY_m3PkYPeL5pW-gyB%2BcC__HJvRf1_iEPBD1nBd3%2BuAg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
