Document how @override_settings(CACHES=...) can work with class-based views

[R3turnz]

The following should override the CACHES setting during tests:

@method_decorator(cache_page(60 * 5), name='dispatch')
class IndexView(generic.ListView):

if ENABLE_CACHING:
    CACHES = get_cache()
else:
    CACHES = {
        'default': {
            'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache',
        }
    }

@override_settings(CACHES={'default': {'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache'}})
class IndexViewTests(TestCase):

The setting also seems to be correctly overriden, (django.conf.settings contains dummy cache) but I encounter following problems:

• The context of the response is always None.
• Test which formerly passed now fail and view functions are not called.

All problems disappear when I disable caching manually!
This leads me to the assumption that the views are stilled cached.
The documentation says that overriding the cache should be possible and I am not using sessions framwork.
I do not have enough knowledge of the architecture of django to do further debugging.

[Tim Graham]

I suspect this is not a bug but that you'll have to reinitialize the class-based view after overriding the CACHES setting since it's already been initialized with the original settings values.

If that's correct, perhaps ​the documentation could be clarified.

[R3turnz]

I agree with you that this could be the problem, but how do reinitialize the settings?

[Tim Graham]

I'm not sure if there's an elegant way for this to work.