Multiple lookup_fields for django rest framework

Question

I have multiple API which historically work using id as the lookup field:

/api/organization/10

I have a frontend consuming those api.

I'm building a new interface and for some reasons, I would like to use a slug instead an id:

/api/organization/my-orga

The API is built with Django Rest Framework. Except the change of lookup field, the api behavior should stay the same.

Is there a solution to allow my API to work with both a slug and a pk ? Those two path should give them same results:

/api/organization/10
/api/organization/my-orga

Here is my API definition:

# urls.py
router = DefaultRouter()
router.register(r'organization', Organization)
urlpatterns = router.urls

#view.py
class Organization(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    queryset = OrganisationGroup.objects.all()
    serializer_class = OrganizationSerializer

# serializer.py
class OrganizationSerializer(PermissionsSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Organization

Answer 1

Try this

from django.db.models import Q
import operator
from functools import reduce
from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404

class MultipleFieldLookupMixin(object):
    def get_object(self):
        queryset = self.get_queryset()             # Get the base queryset
        queryset = self.filter_queryset(queryset)  # Apply any filter backends
        filter = {}
        for field in self.lookup_fields:
            filter[field] = self.kwargs[field]
        q = reduce(operator.or_, (Q(x) for x in filter.items()))
        return get_object_or_404(queryset, q)

Then in View

class Organization(MultipleFieldLookupMixin, viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    queryset = OrganisationGroup.objects.all()
    serializer_class = OrganizationSerializer
    lookup_fields = ('pk', 'another field')

Answer 2

I solved the similar problem by overriding retrieve method and check pk field's value against any pattern. For example if it consists of only numbers.

def retrieve(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
    if kwargs['pk'].isdigit():
        return super(Organization, self).retrieve(request, *args, **kwargs)
    else:
        # get and return object however you want here.

Answer 3

I know you asked this question quite a time ago, but here is the complete solution i got from all answers, considering both views and urls:

Put this in your views.py: (With a little edit from drf)

class MultipleFieldLookupMixin(object):

def get_object(self):
    queryset = self.get_queryset()             
    queryset = self.filter_queryset(queryset)  
    filter = {}
    for field in self.lookup_fields:
        if self.kwargs.get(field, None):  
            filter[field] = self.kwargs[field]
    obj = get_object_or_404(queryset, **filter)  # Lookup the object
    self.check_object_permissions(self.request, obj)
    return obj

Then inherit your view from this Mixin and add fields you want to lookup_fields. Like this:

class YourDetailView(MultipleFieldLookupMixin, RetrieveUpdateAPIView):
    ...
    lookup_fields = ['pk', 'slug','code']

And in urls.py:

re_path(r'^organization/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$',
        YourDetailView),
re_path(r'^organization/(?P<slug>[-a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/$',
        YourDetailView),
re_path(r'^organization/sth_else/(?P<code>[0-9]+)/$',
        YourDetailView),

Answer 4

class MultipleFieldLookupMixin(object):
    """
    Apply this mixin to any view or viewset to get multiple field filtering
    based on a `lookup_fields` attribute, instead of the default single field filtering.
    """

    def get_object(self):
        queryset = self.get_queryset()  # Get the base queryset
        queryset = self.filter_queryset(queryset)
        filter = {}
        for field in self.lookup_fields:
            if self.kwargs[field]:  # Ignore empty fields.
                filter[field] = self.kwargs[field]
        return get_object_or_404(queryset, **filter)  # Lookup the object


class RetrieveUserView(MultipleFieldLookupMixin, generics.RetrieveAPIView):
    queryset = User.objects.all()
    serializer_class = UserSerializer
    lookup_fields = ('account', 'username')

Answer 5

I think best way is to override the get_object(self) method

class Organization(generics.RetrieveAPIView):
    serializer_class = OrganizationSerializer
    queryset = Organization.objects.all()
    multiple_lookup_fields = ['pk', 'slug']

    def get_object(self):
        queryset = self.get_queryset()
        filter = {}
        for field in self.multiple_lookup_fields:
            filter[field] = self.kwargs[field]

        obj = get_object_or_404(queryset, **filter)
        self.check_object_permissions(self.request, obj)
        return obj

Answer 6

I think the fundamental answer is that this would not be good REST/API design and just isn't something DRF would enable.

Answer 7

There are a lot of answers here already, but none provide a full description including the mixin, view, and url configuration. This answer does.

This is the mixin that works best, it is slightly modified from https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/generic-views/#creating-custom-mixins to not error out on non-existing fields.

class MultipleFieldLookupMixin:
    """
    Apply this mixin to any view or viewset to get multiple field filtering
    based on a `lookup_fields` attribute, instead of the default single field filtering.

    Source: https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/generic-views/#creating-custom-mixins
    Modified to not error out for not providing all fields in the url.
    """

    def get_object(self):
        queryset = self.get_queryset()             # Get the base queryset
        queryset = self.filter_queryset(queryset)  # Apply any filter backends
        filter = {}
        for field in self.lookup_fields:
            if self.kwargs.get(field):  # Ignore empty fields.
                filter[field] = self.kwargs[field]
        obj = get_object_or_404(queryset, **filter)  # Lookup the object
        self.check_object_permissions(self.request, obj)
        return obj

Now add the view as follows, it is important to have the Mixin first, otherwise the get_object method is not overwritten:

class RudAPIView(MultipleFieldLookupMixin, generics.RetrieveUpdateDestroyAPIView):
    ...
    lookup_fields = ['pk', 'other_field']

Now, for the urls, we use default converters. It is important int comes first as that one will actually check if it is an int, and if not fallback to str. If you have more complex fields, you need to resort to regex.

path('efficiency/<int:pk>/', views.RudAPIView.as_view(), name='something-rud'),
path('efficiency/<string:other_field>/', views.RudAPIView.as_view(), name='something-rud'),