cache_page with Class Based Views

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Note that the answer you linked to is out of date.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).

yet another good example CacheMixin from cyberdelia github

class CacheMixin(object):
    cache_timeout = 60

    def get_cache_timeout(self):
        return self.cache_timeout

    def dispatch(self, *args, **kwargs):
        return cache_page(self.get_cache_timeout())(super(CacheMixin, self).dispatch)(*args, **kwargs)

usecase:

from django.views.generic.detail import DetailView


class ArticleView(CacheMixin, DetailView):
    cache_timeout = 90
    template_name = "article_detail.html"
    queryset = Article.objects.articles()
    context_object_name = "article"

You can simply decorate the class itself instead of overriding the dispatch method or using a mixin.

For example

from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_page
from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator

@method_decorator(cache_page(60 * 5), name='dispatch')
class ListView(ListView):
...

Django docs on decorating a method within a class based view.