URL dispatcher documentation with class-based generic views

[Andrew Willey <andrew@…>]

It would be nice to update the url() documentation here

​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/urls/#url

to reflect that using class-based generic views means you pass the class object instead of view='some_view' and that class-based views must be imported as opposed to included in the patterns arguments.

example:

from myapp.views import *

urlpatterns += patterns('', 
    url(GenericViewClass.as_view(), name='the_url_name'),
)

[Alex Gaynor]

Fixed up the formatting.

[Simon Meers]

We could change the URL Dispatcher documentation in *many* places to specify the class-based view alternatives. What might be better is to update "Once one of the regexes matches, Django imports and calls the given view, which is a simple Python function." (1) to better define views based on the recent updates, and refer the reader to the class-based view documentation (2) for more information. There may be some other simple changes required elsewhere in the document also.

(1) ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/urls/#how-django-processes-a-request

(2) ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/class-based-views/

[Aymeric Augustin]

Change UI/UX from NULL to False.

[Aymeric Augustin]

Change Easy pickings from NULL to False.

[Tim Graham <timograham@…>]

In acd74ffa358a64861fae8fd7bf020fc3a50341b2:

Fixed #14829 - Added references to CBVs in the URLConf docs; thanks Andrew Willey for the suggestion.

[Tim Graham <timograham@…>]

In 57cdbf3bf8e80eb5c265852bfa5eb4b3f514809e:

[1.4.X] Fixed #14829 - Added references to CBVs in the URLConf docs; thanks Andrew Willey for the suggestion.

Backport of acd74ffa35 from master