Render JSON with Django REST framework like TemplateHTMLRenderer

[Christopher Kim]

How can you use the same approach as the standard view way of rendering HTML templates? In the standard way you can do something like this:

from django.views.generic import TemplateView


class BaseView(TemplateView):
    template_name = 'something.html'

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = super(BaseView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context['body'] = 'lorem ipsum'
        return context

Can you have an APIView class with template_name set to something like 'something.json'? And then .json template file will have some context placeholders like {{ blah }}. But this class will still respond with json as the output, and you can also set format=json so that you can access the url with the .json extension. My default renderer class is rest_framework.renderers.JSONRenderer

[Xavier Ordoquy]

Hi,

By overloading the functions, you are free to alter the serializer’s result before it gets passed to the renderer.

Regards,

Xavier,

Linovia.

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