Mix View and ViewSet in a browsable api_root

Question

I have a browsable API:

restaurant_router = DefaultRouter()
restaurant_router.register(r'rooms', RoomsViewSet)
restaurant_router.register(r'printers', PrintersViewSet)
restaurant_router.register(r'shifts', ShiftsViewSet)

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^$', api_root),
    url(r'^restaurant/$',
        RestaurantView.as_view(),
        name='api_restaurants_restaurant'),
    url(r'^restaurant/', include(restaurant_router.urls)),
)

In the api_root I can link to the named route:

@api_view(('GET',))
def api_root(request, format=None):
    return Response({
        'restaurant': reverse('api_restaurants_restaurant', request=request, format=format),
    })

Or I can use the browsable API generated by the DefaultRouter, as explained in the documentation:

The DefaultRouter class we're using also automatically creates the API root view for us, so we can now delete the api_root method from our views module.

What do I do if I want to mix ViewSets and normal Views, and show everything in the same API root? The DefaultRouter is only listing the ViewSets it controls.

Answer 1

You can define your views as ViewSets with only one method. So you can register it in router and it will be in one space with ViewSets.

http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/viewsets/