To mix with routers and APIView classes or method based in such a way that the API Root displays both with minimal code views in the APIRoot view I wrote a custom router that extends DefaultRouter and overrides get_urls and get_api_root_view; it looks like as follows :
from rest_framework import routers, views, reverse, response
class HybridRouter(routers.DefaultRouter):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(HybridRouter, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self._api_view_urls = {}
def add_api_view(self, name, url):
self._api_view_urls[name] = url
def remove_api_view(self, name):
del self._api_view_urls[name]
@property
def api_view_urls(self):
ret = {}
ret.update(self._api_view_urls)
return ret
def get_urls(self):
urls = super(HybridRouter, self).get_urls()
for api_view_key in self._api_view_urls.keys():
urls.append(self._api_view_urls[api_view_key])
return urls
def get_api_root_view(self):
# Copy the following block from Default Router
api_root_dict = {}
list_name = self.routes[0].name
for prefix, viewset, basename in self.registry:
api_root_dict[prefix] = list_name.format(basename=basename)
api_view_urls = self._api_view_urls
class APIRoot(views.APIView):
_ignore_model_permissions = True
def get(self, request, format=None):
ret = {}
for key, url_name in api_root_dict.items():
ret[key] = reverse.reverse(url_name, request=request, format=format)
# In addition to what had been added, now add the APIView urls
for api_view_key in api_view_urls.keys():
ret[api_view_key] = reverse.reverse(api_view_urls[api_view_key].name, request=request, format=format)
return response.Response(ret)
return APIRoot.as_view()
Then I use it as –
router = routers.HybridRouter()
router.register(r'abc', views.ABCViewSet)
router.add_api_view("api-view", url(r'^aview/$', views.AView.as_view(), name="aview-name"))
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^api/', include(router.urls)),