How to add namespace url to a django-rest-framework router viewset

Will Farley picture Will Farley · Oct 27, 2013 · Viewed 9.5k times · Source

I would like to add a url namespace to my api router but when I do the router still looks for urls without a namespace:

router = DefaultRouter()
router.register(r'users', UserViewSet)
router.register(r'events', EventViewSet)
router.register(r'comments', CommentViewSet)

urlpatterns = patterns('apiroot.views',
                       url(r'^', include(router.urls, namespace='api')),
                       )

The browsable api looks for url names like 'user-list' and 'user-detail' still instead of 'api:user-list' which is what I would like to have happen.

I'm assuming there is an easy fix for this (it seems like a pretty standard thing to want to do) but I can't find any solution in the django-rest-framework docs. If I'm missing something from the docs, please share a link or if I am approaching this wrong (i.e "why would you do that, it's bad practice" or whatever) please explain why or what the correct way to manage api urls would be. Thanks!

Answer

Carlton Gibson picture Carlton Gibson · Oct 28, 2013

There's a pull request open for this currently. Please feel free to join the discussion.