Django Rest Framework - detail page of @detail_route

Question

I am ussing @detail_route on my viewsets.ModelViewSet.

class CompanyViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    queryset = Company.objects.all()
    serializer_class         


        

Answer 1

DRF does not handle nested routes by itself, you may handle it by hand or use an extension, like drf-nested-routers, but its outdated.

My advice : don't fight the framework, DRF is not good at playing with url-nested resources, do it another way.

Answer 2

So avoid it when you can...but sometimes it makes sense to nest resources or methods

So for your case to handle both the accounts/ url and accounts/{account_id} you define another detail route.

You have already defined the one for accounts so you just add another function with a different name and ensure to add the url_path so you can get the account_id variable.

        @detail_route(methods=['get', ], permission_classes=[IsCompanyUserPermission, ])
        def accounts(self, request, pk):
        ...
        return Response(...)

        @detail_route(methods=['get', ], permission_classes=[IsCompanyUserPermission, ], 
                      url_path='^queues/(?P<account_id>[0-9]+)')
        def account_detail(self, request, pk, account_id):
        ...
        return Response(...)

This answer took this similar answer as a reference