Django Rest Framework Routers with multiple viewsets

Question

I am attempting to create an API using DRF 3.1. I started by creating manangement functions using ModelViewSet and registering these with a DefaultRouter. This worked perfectly and the default API root view generated the appropriate links when viewed in a browser. I then created more restricted viewsets for standard users using ReadOnlyModelViewSet, the problem occurred when I tried to register these restricted viewsets with the router as the ReadOnlyModelViewSets appear to overwrite the links on the API root view. The generated urls appear to work when typed into the browser but the links on the API root view are not as I expected

serializers.py

class AdminUnitSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
'''
model serializer for admin users containing all fields

'''

url = HyperlinkedIdentityField(view_name='unit-detail')

class Meta:
    model = Unit
    fields = ('url', 'id', 'name', 'symbol', 'converters_from', 'converters_to')

class UserUnitSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
'''
model serializer for standard users containing restricted set of fields

'''

url = HyperlinkedIdentityField(view_name='unit-detail')

class Meta:
    model = Unit
    fields = ('url', 'id', 'name', 'symbol')

views.py

class AdminUnitViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
'''
simple viewset providing CRUD operations on unit objects

'''

queryset = models.Unit.objects.all()
serializer_class = serializers.AdminUnitSerializer
permission_classes = (permissions.IsAdminUser,)

class UserUnitViewSet(viewsets.ReadOnlyModelViewSet):
'''
read only view set providing list and detail views for unit objects

'''

queryset =  models.Unit.objects.all()
serializer_class = serializers.UserUnitSerializer
permission_classes(permissions.IsAuthenticated,)

urls.py

router.register(r'manangeunits', views.AdminUnitViewSet)
router.register(r'readunits', views.UserUnitViewSet)

urlpatterns = [
url(r'^api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls', namespace='rest_framework')),
url(r'^rest-auth/', include('rest_auth.urls')),
url(r'^', include(router.urls))
]

this produces a default API root view like this

{
"manangeunits": "http://localhost:8000/readunits/",
"readunits": "http://localhost:8000/readunits/",
}

while what I am looking for is this

{
"manangeunits": "htt://localhost:8000/manageunits/",
"readunits": "htt://localhost:8000/readunits/",
}

the url 'htt://localhost:8000/manageunits/' is valid and accessible when the address is typed into the browser it just does not appear on the API root view

any help would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

I had the same issue and luckily found a solution.

Extend your urls.py as following:

router.register(r'manangeunits', views.AdminUnitViewSet, base_name='manangeunits')
router.register(r'readunits', views.UserUnitViewSet, base_name='readunits')

I don't know the magic behind this, but it works for me :)