Django — Routers

DefaultRouter

from rest_framework.routers import DefaultRouter
from .views import PostViewSet

router = DefaultRouter()
router.register(r'posts', PostViewSet)

urlpatterns = [
    path('api/', include(router.urls)),
]

SimpleRouter

from rest_framework.routers import SimpleRouter

router = SimpleRouter()
router.register(r'posts', PostViewSet)

urlpatterns = [
    path('api/', include(router.urls)),
]

Custom Prefix

router.register(r'posts', PostViewSet, basename='post')

Nested Routers

from rest_framework_nested.routers import NestedSimpleRouter

router = DefaultRouter()
router.register(r'posts', PostViewSet)

nested_router = NestedSimpleRouter(router, r'posts', lookup='post')
nested_router.register(r'comments', CommentViewSet, basename='post-comments')

Generated URLs

URL	Method	Action
/api/posts/	GET	list
/api/posts/	POST	create
/api/posts/{id}/	GET	retrieve
/api/posts/{id}/	PUT	update
/api/posts/{id}/	DELETE	destroy

Mini Practice

1. Set up DefaultRouter
2. Use SimpleRouter
3. Create custom basename
4. Implement nested routers

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