API Root, router viewsets and traditional views

[Jakub Wiśniowski]

Hi,

   I'd like to have Browsable API root for my API. There are two methods in the DRF docs:

1. use "api root" function like:

@api_view(('GET',))

def api_root(request, format=None):

    return Response({

        'registration': reverse('accounts-register', request=request, format=format),

        'tickets': reverse('ticket-list', request=request, format=format)

    })

2. Use DefaultRouter

router = routers.DefaultRouter()

router.register(r'tickets', TicketViewSet)

However I have some APIViews and some ViewSets in my API. Because I can set up a DefaultRouter for ViewSets, but can't register APIViews with it the api root view generated by router will be incomplete. Am I missing something here or registration of Views with router is just not possible?

At the moment I use something like:

@api_view(('GET',))

def api_root(request, format=None):

    api_root_dict = {}

    

    # parser router

    list_name = router.routes[0].name

    for prefix, viewset, basename in router.registry:

        api_root_dict[prefix] = reverse(list_name.format(basename=basename),

                                        request=request, format=format)

    # add views

    api_root_dict['registration'] = reverse('accounts-register',

                                            request=request, format=format)

    return Response(api_root_dict)

This is placed in the urls.py directly so `router` is the router from 2. above.

Is there any better solution?

Jakub

[Dierdre Skye]

Did you ever find any other solutions?

[Jakub Wiśniowski]

W dniu niedziela, 1 czerwca 2014 23:50:31 UTC+2 użytkownik Dierdre Skye napisał:

Did you ever find any other solutions?

To be honest.. I don't remember :) But probably not - it wasn't core system feature so IIRC I kept it as described above. It was good enough for my use case.