Adding more views to a Router or viewset (Django-Rest-Framework)

Question

Essentially, I\'m trying to find a good way to attach more views to a Router without creating a custom Router. What\'s a good way to accomplish this?

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Answer 1

The answer given by mariodev above is correct, as long as you're only looking to make GET requests.

If you want to POST to a function you're appending to a ViewSet, you need to use the action decorator:

from rest_framework.decorators import action, link
from rest_framework.response import Response

class MyObjectsViewSet(viewsets.ViewSet):

    # For GET Requests
    @link()
    def get_locations(self, request):
        """ Returns a list of location objects somehow related to MyObject """
        locations = calculate_something()
        return Response(locations)

    # For POST Requests
    @action()
    def update_location(self, request, pk):
        """ Updates the object identified by the pk """
        location = self.get_object()
        location.field = update_location_field() # your custom code
        location.save()

        # ...create a serializer and return with updated data...

Then you would POST to a URL formatted like: /myobjects/123/update_location/

http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/viewsets/#marking-extra-actions-for-routing has more information if you're interested!