Opened 4 years ago
Last modified 3 years ago
#32195 closed New feature
Improve error messages from forgetting to call .as_view() on a CBV — at Version 1
Reported by: | Angus Holder | Owned by: | nobody |
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Component: | Core (URLs) | Version: | 3.1 |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Triage Stage: | Ready for checkin | |
Has patch: | yes | Needs documentation: | no |
Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description (last modified by )
We can detect early-on that the user has forgotten to call .as_view() on their CBV when passing it into path(). For:
urlpatterns = [ path('home', HomeView) ]
The error currently happens only when you first load the route (rather than when constructing the routes), and looks like
Internal Server Error: / Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Angus\.virtualenvs\django-WBTbdxDv\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\exception.py", line 47, in inner response = get_response(request) File "C:\Users\Angus\.virtualenvs\django-WBTbdxDv\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py", line 179, in _get_response response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) TypeError: __init__() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given
Which is especially hard to work out given that the traceback doesn't even include any of the user's own code, and this is an error that's easy for beginners to run into when first using CBVs.
My PR changes it to fail early, inside the call to django.urls.path(), with a clear error:
URL route 'foo' should pass in 'EmptyCBView.as_view()' instead of 'EmptyCBView'
Pull request: https://github.com/django/django/pull/13682