AttributeError - CBV 'function' object has no attribute 'as_view'

Question

I'm using a regular CBV in comination with a decorator and I always get this error:

AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'as_view'

Here is my code:

@my_decorator
class MyView(View):
    template_name = 'package/index.html'

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        ...

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

Answer 1

The problem is that CBVs work differently with decorators as FBVs.

Here's the way to go with it:

@method_decorator(my_decorator)
def dispatch(self, *args, **kwargs):
    return super(MyView, self).dispatch(*args, **kwargs)

Here is a link to the documentation.