Using @cache_page With Django's Feeds

When returning a django.contrib.syndication.Feed from a view function, the @cache_page decorator does not seem to work as expected. Briefly inspecting the source of Feed explains why: Feed is not an HttpResponse. Truly, this isn't a bug: it's a documentation (if not comprehension) issue. Because the view function is expected to return an HttpResponse object, the Feed must first be converted.

Notice that Feed is a callable object, returning its own state as the necessary HttpResponse. As such, you may, indeed, use the @cache_page decorator on any view method that returns a Feed:

@cache_page(60*5)
def latest_feed(request):
    return SomeFeed(some, params)(request)

Alternatively, using the cache_page decorator in your urls module will accomplish the same task:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url('^somepath/$', cache_page(SomeFeed(some, params), 60*5))
)

This works because the URL specifies a callable. More information is available in the Django documentation.