Comment to http://www.pythondiary.com/blog/Nov.11,2012/mapping-out-djangos-class-based-views.html

gistfile1.py

from django.views.generic import TemplateView

class ClassView(TemplateView):
    template_name = "custom_view.html"

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        # This allows this View to be easily subclassed in the future to interchange context data.
        context = kwargs
        return context

    def dispatch(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        # Do something fancy here.
        return super(ClassView, self).dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        # Do something with GET.
        context = self.get_context_data(**kwargs)
        return self.render_to_response(context)

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        # Do something with the POST data.
        context = self.get_context_data(**kwargs)
        return self.render_to_response(context)