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

Got it. The trick is to install djangorestframework-csv, then add the following in settings:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES': (
        'rest_framework.renderers.JSONRenderer',
        'rest_framework.renderers.BrowsableAPIRenderer',
        'rest_framework_csv.renderers.CSVRenderer',
    ),
}

And then scrap the JSONResponse function in views.py and just do return Response(serializer.data) instead. Very easy in the end.