generic views: ability to disable caching

[Michael Samoylov <michael.samoylov@…>]

first of all i want to thank all django developers and contributors for such awesome framework.
the question is: it would be nice if all generic views got no_cache=True{False} parameter to avoid caching of i.e. backoffice's pages based on generic views
thanks

[Adrian Holovaty]

Hi Michael,

I'm not sure what you're looking for here. What is backoffice? And what caching are you referring to -- the Django cache framework?

[Michael Samoylov <michael.samoylov@…>]

yes, it's all about django cache and generic views. a possibility to enable/disable caching with generic views

[Adrian Holovaty]

Generic views don't do any caching on their own. Any caching that they do is caching that *you* (the developer) have added yourself, so I don't see how generic views should gain functionality to disable caching.

[James Bennett]

It sounds like he's just caching his entire site, in which case it might be more productive in his case to use the finer-grained caching, or use wrappers around generic views to add the never_cache decorator.