What are the use cases for class based generic views for django

Question

I am trying to write some generic boiler plate code for creating facebook apps. I am writing a separate FacebookUser class instead of django's standrd contrib.user app. I am wondering if it would be a good design decision to actually write all oauth steps using class based generic views . What is the point of using class based genric views and why and where should i use them

Answer 1

Any Repetitve process that would benefit from an object oriented approach. For me I create a lot of utilities that allows users to download data as a CSV, I have implemented a CSVResponseView view that returns a csv with the correct content types. This makes it easier for me to test, and lends itself to a more consistent easier to maintain implementation then function based views.