TypeError while using django rest framework tutorial

Question

I am new to using Django Rest framework, i am following this tutorial Django-Rest-Framework

Instead of snippets my model consists of a userprofile as given below:

class UserProfile(models.Model):
      user = models.OneToOneField(User)
      emp_code = models.CharField(max_length=10, blank=True)
      user_type = models.IntegerField(max_length=1, default=0, choices=USER_TYPE)
      group = models.ForeignKey(Group, null=True, blank=True)
      status = models.SmallIntegerField(max_length=1,default=0)
      added_on = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

The first part of the tutorial ran fine, got the desired output in json format as mentioned, however the second tutorial onwards i am getting type error:

TypeError at /authentication/userprofile/
'type' object is not iterable
Request Method: GET
Request URL:    http://*****.com/authentication/userprofile/
Django Version: 1.6
Exception Type: TypeError
Exception Value:    
'type' object is not iterable
Exception Location: /home/web/cptm_venv/lib/python2.7/site-     packages/rest_framework/views.py in get_permissions, line 226
Python Executable:  /usr/bin/python
Python Version: 2.7.3
Python Path:    
['/home/web/cptm_venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages',
 '/home/web/cptm',
 '/home/web/cptm_venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages',
 '/usr/lib/python2.7',
 '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2',
 '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk',
 '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old',
 '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages',
 '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages',
 '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7']
 Server time:   Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:33:54 +0530
 Traceback Switch to copy-and-paste view

/home/web/cptm_venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py in get_response
                response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) ...
▶ Local vars
/home/web/cptm_venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/views/generic/base.py in view
        return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs) ...
▶ Local vars
/home/web/cptm_venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/views/decorators/csrf.py in    wrapped_view
    return view_func(*args, **kwargs) ...
▶ Local vars
/home/web/cptm_venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py in dispatch
        response = self.handle_exception(exc) ...
▶ Local vars
/home/web/cptm_venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py in dispatch
        self.initial(request, *args, **kwargs) ...
▶ Local vars
/home/web/cptm_venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py in initial
    self.check_permissions(request) ...
▶ Local vars
/home/web/cptm_venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py in   check_permissions
     for permission in self.get_permissions(): ...
▶ Local vars
/home/web/cptm_venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py in get_permissions
    return [permission() for permission in self.permission_classes] ...
▶ Local vars

The rest of the code is almost same as given in the above link in 2nd part and 3rd part: views.py

from apps.authentication.models import UserProfile
from apps.authentication.serializers import UserProfileSerializer
from rest_framework import mixins
from rest_framework import generics

class UserProfileList(mixins.ListModelMixin,
              mixins.CreateModelMixin,
              generics.GenericAPIView):
    queryset = UserProfile.objects.all()
    serializer_class = UserProfileSerializer

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        return self.list(request, *args, **kwargs)

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        return self.create(request, *args, **kwargs)


class UserProfileDetail(mixins.RetrieveModelMixin,
                mixins.UpdateModelMixin,
                mixins.DestroyModelMixin,
                generics.GenericAPIView):
    queryset = UserProfile.objects.all()
    serializer_class = UserProfileSerializer

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        return self.retrieve(request, *args, **kwargs)

    def put(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        return self.update(request, *args, **kwargs)

    def delete(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        return self.destroy(request, *args, **kwargs)

urls.py

from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
from rest_framework.urlpatterns import format_suffix_patterns
from apps.authentication import views

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^userprofile/$', views.UserProfileList.as_view()),
    url(r'^userprofile/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', views.UserProfileDetail.as_view()),
)

urlpatterns = format_suffix_patterns(urlpatterns)

I am missing something very obvious, tried a lot to search what exactly the "type object not iterable" means in this context, and which object is causing the problem, but no luck. I am using Django Rest Framework version 2.3.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Just to let others know, I kept getting this same error and found that I forgot to include a comma in my REST_FRAMEWORK. I had this:

'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': (
    'rest_framework.permissions.IsAuthenticated'
),

instead of this:

'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': (
    'rest_framework.permissions.IsAuthenticated',
),

The comma defines this as a one-element tuple