Rewrite contrib auth to use class based views

[Harro]

Having classed based views for the auth app would make reusing them from your own site with small modifications a lot easier.

[Harro]

Working on this during djangocon eu 2011 sprints

[Harro]

Right, so I started this, converted login and logout to class based views, changed the current view functions to simply call the class based view and give a PendingDeprecationWarning. Ran the tests, everything is fine.
Changed the urls.py in auth to use the Class Based views: Two errors: Tests (and possibly other code) uses the view function dotpath to reverse them, there is no name defined.

How should I solve this?

[Harro]

Using the old view dotpath as name also doesn't fix the problem, as view lookups are resolved before names and the original view functions still exist.

[Harro]

After talking with Russel and Alex we decided there was no nice way to do this, except in the same way the admin urls handling was changed before.

Alex has some idea's for a Class Based View Collection which basically is a class with class based views that handles the urls.

We'll look into it some more

[Harro]

Depends on #16213 to be finished first for a nice solution

[Jacob]

Milestone 1.4 deleted

[anonymous]

Closing as duplicate of #17209 since it has recent activity and more comments and code.