Returning CSV format from django-rest-framework?

Question

I have a working Django 1.8 site, and I want to add a RESTful API using django-rest-framework. I would like to support rendering to CSV and JSON formats, and am puzzling over ho

Answer 1

If you just need to download CSV (without Model serialization etc)

import csv
from django.http import HttpResponse
from rest_framework.views import APIView


class CSVviewSet(APIView):

    def get(self, request, format=None):
        response = HttpResponse(content_type='text/csv')
        response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="export.csv"'
        writer = csv.DictWriter(response, fieldnames=['emp_name', 'dept', 'birth_month'])
        writer.writeheader()
        writer.writerow({'emp_name': 'John Smith', 'dept': 'Accounting', 'birth_month': 'November'})
        writer.writerow({'emp_name': 'Erica Meyers', 'dept': 'IT', 'birth_month': 'March'})
        return response