Write urls without regex in DRF

[Rounak Jain]

I am using DRF Viewsets to auto-generate URLs for different views. Is it possible to write the code below without using regex?
Thanks

from .views import TaskViewSet
from rest_framework.routers import DefaultRouter

router = DefaultRouter()
router.register(r'', TaskViewSet, basename='task')
urlpatterns = router.urls

[Onasanya Tunde]

Use Django2.X

[Rounak Jain]

Thanks for the reply. I understand how to use them in urls.py when creating normal routes but here in case of drf, it would help if you could show me how to do it

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 10:11 PM Onasanya Tunde <onasany...@gmail.com> wrote:

Use Django2.X

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[Rounak Jain]

I cannot see any reply 

On Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 7:56:54 AM UTC+5:30, Kevin Jay wrote:

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On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 10:19 AM Rounak Jain <rounak...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am using DRF Viewsets to auto-generate URLs for different views. Is it possible to write the code below without using regex?
Thanks

from .views import TaskViewSet
from rest_framework.routers import DefaultRouter

router = DefaultRouter()
router.register(r'', TaskViewSet, basename='task')
urlpatterns = router.urls

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[nm]

Yes, it's possible to write this code without using regexp, and it should work the same.

If you have a look at the source code of the routers, there's a method `get_urls` in SimpleRouter (you can find it here https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/blob/master/rest_framework/routers.py), which, among others, does:

regex = route.url.format(
    prefix=prefix,
    lookup=lookup,
    trailing_slash=self.trailing_slash
)

where `route.url` is something like

url=r'^{prefix}/{lookup}{trailing_slash}$',

and `prefix` is the first argument you pass to `router.register` - in your case, an empty string:

def register(self, prefix, viewset, basename=None, base_name=None)

It does not seem to matter whether you put `prefix=r''` or `prefix=''`, the ultimate url regex looks the same.

Disclaimer: I assume you're using the latest version of DRF (3.9.x); I haven checked how the code looks in older versions.