What is the advantage of Class-Based views?

Question

I read today that Django 1.3 alpha is shipping, and the most touted new feature is the introduction of class-based views.
I\'ve read the relevant documentation, but I fi

Answer 1

Your example function and class are not equal in features.

The class based version provide pagination for free and forbid the use of other HTTP verbs than GET.

If you want to add this to your function, it's going to be much longer.

But it is, indeed, more complicated.