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
20941	Provide a way for CBVs to be called from instances	Marc Tamlyn	Marc Tamlyn	"With the changes in the dispatch method to make overriding the method easier, we lost the ability to easily instantiate and call a class based view directly. There are some custom use cases where this is useful - and it's generally useful in tests. The end user perhaps has to be careful about thread safety, but nonetheless.

Ideally this would be callable after `__init__()` so the view instance can have some processing done before the request is known. 

This would also be useful for providing better ways to test the CBVs."	New feature	closed	Generic views	dev	Normal	duplicate			Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	0