django/docs/releases/1.2-alpha.txt

Backwards-incompatible changes
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CSRF Protection
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There have been large changes to the way that CSRF protection works, detailed in
:ref:`the CSRF documentaton <ref-contrib-csrf>`.  The following are the major
changes that developers must be aware of:

 * ``CsrfResponseMiddleware`` and ``CsrfMiddleware`` have been deprecated, and
   will be removed completely in Django 1.4, in favour of a template tag that
   should be inserted into forms.

 * All contrib apps use a ``csrf_protect`` decorator to protect the view.  This
   requires the use of the csrf_token template tag in the template, so if you
   have used custom templates for contrib views, you MUST READ THE UPGRADE
   INSTRUCTIONS to fix those templates.

 * ``CsrfViewMiddleware`` is included in :setting:`MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES` by
   default. This turns on CSRF protection by default, so that views that accept
   POST requests need to be written to work with the middleware.  Instructions
   on how to do this are found in the CSRF docs.

 * All of the CSRF has moved from contrib to core (with backwards compatible
   imports in the old locations, which are deprecated).

LazyObject
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``LazyObject`` is an undocumented utility class used for lazily wrapping other
objects of unknown type.  In Django 1.1 and earlier, it handled introspection in
a non-standard way, depending on wrapped objects implementing a public method
``get_all_members()``. Since this could easily lead to name clashes, it has been
changed to use the standard method, involving ``__members__`` and ``__dir__()``.
If you used ``LazyObject`` in your own code, and implemented the
``get_all_members()`` method for wrapped objects, you need to make the following
changes:

 * If your class does not have special requirements for introspection (i.e. you
   have not implemented ``__getattr__()`` or other methods that allow for
   attributes not discoverable by normal mechanisms), you can simply remove the
   ``get_all_members()`` method.  The default implementation on ``LazyObject``
   will do the right thing.

 * If you have more complex requirements for introspection, first rename the
   ``get_all_members()`` method to ``__dir__()``.  This is the standard method,
   from Python 2.6 onwards, for supporting introspection.  If you are require
   support for Python < 2.6, add the following code to the class::

       __members__ = property(lambda self: self.__dir__())