get router url name when testing in Django Rest Framework

Question

I have some problem. I use routers in Django Rest Framework and I want to test some api methods.

In urls.py:

router = DefaultRouter() router.register(r'my-list', MyViewSet, base_name="my_list")  urlpatterns = [     url(r'^api/', include(router.urls,                           namespace='api'), ),  ] 

So, in tests.py I want to use something like reverse. Now I use

response = self.client.get('/api/my-list/') 

Its a hard coded string, if I use :

response = self.client.get(reverse('api:my_list') 

I have an error:

django.core.urlresolvers.NoReverseMatch: Reverse for 'my_list' with arguments '()' and keyword arguments '{}' not found. 0 pattern(s) tried: [] 

How to fix that?

Thanks!

Answer 1

DRF adds suffixes in viewsets for different URLs - list, detail and possibly custom URLs. You can see that in source code and in docs. So in your case the actual reverse should be something like:

reverse('api:my_list-list')    # for list URL. e.g. /api/my-list/ reverse('api:my_list-detail')  # for detail URL. e.g. /api/my-list/<pk>/ 

That is why its also probably better to use a resource name as a router base_name. For example base_name='user' vs base_name='users_list'.