How do I use django rest framework to send a file in response?

Question

I need to send a pdf file and some other parameters in response to a get API call using django rest framework.

How can I do it? I tried this but it gives an error

Answer 1

You can use DRF-PDF project with PDFFileResponse:

from rest_framework import status
from rest_framework.views import APIView
from drf_pdf.response import PDFFileResponse
from drf_pdf.renderer import PDFRenderer


class PDFHandler(APIView):

    renderer_classes = (PDFRenderer, )

    def get(self, request):
        return PDFFileResponse(
            file_path='/path/to/file.pdf',
            status=status.HTTP_200_OK
        )

But, maybe you cannot respond in both formats (json and stream).