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mayk93
mayk93

Reputation: 1537

Django Rest Framework - How to route to a function view

I am using Django with Django Rest Framework.

Django==2.0.2
djangorestframework==3.7.7

I am trying to route to a function view.

My current setup looks like this:

- project
    - project
        - urls
    - app
        - urls
        - views

In project/urls, I reference the app's urls like this:

url(r'^app_api/', include('app_api.urls', namespace='app_api'))

In app/urls, I route to the views like this:

router.register(r'', views.app_api, base_name="app_api")
url(r'', include(router.urls)),

In app/views I have defined a function called app_api and decorated it with api_view.

@api_view(['GET'])
def app_api(request):

If I run the server and curl http://localhost:8080/app_api/ for example, I get a response with status 200 and a empty JSON.

"GET /app_api/ HTTP/1.1" 200 2 {}

I do not understand why this is happening. If I use a class based viewset, it works, but not with a function view.

What is the correct way of routing to a function view when using Django Rest Framework?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 5

Views: 5150

Answers (1)

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599470

I don't understand why you are using a router here. Those are for viewsets: the router generates all URL endpoints for the viewset. You have a single view; it makes no difference if it's a class or function, you need to declare an explicit endpoint for it just like in plain Django.

Upvotes: 3

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