Q:

cache_page with Class Based Views

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

A:

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Note that the answer you linked to is out of date.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

A:

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"

A:

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.

