id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 19005 Allow class based views to be included in urls.py by name as a string Tim Anderegg nobody "Class based views currently have to be imported into urls.py and then added to urlpatterns using ClassBasedView.as_view(). It would be relatively trivial, it seems, to add functionality to the method 'get_callable' in django.core.urlresolvers that uses inspect.isclass to determine if the lookup_view refers to a class, and if so set lookup_view = lookup_view.as_view(), throwing an exception if lookup_view is a class but the method as_view() doesn't exist. This would help cleanup urls.py when using class based views, and be more consistent with how function based views are handled. Is there any reason not to do this? If people support this I will submit a patch." New feature closed Core (URLs) dev Normal wontfix cbv timothy.anderegg@… Unreviewed 0 0 0 0 0 0