Django rest framework- Single class based view bound to multiple urls - django

Question

I'm creating a rest api that's going to be consumed by desktop based clients.
I want my urls to be like this with a view class named ProjectView:
api.myapp.com/project/ -> uses ProjectView get
api.myapp.com/project/create/ -> uses ProjectView post
api.myapp.com/project/edit/ -> uses ProjectView put
I couldn't manage to bind a single view class to multiple urls without exposing all other actions(get, post, put) to that url. Instead I created ProjectView, ProjectViewCreate, ProjectViewEdit classes which seems pretty pointless.
Is there anyway I can accomplish the url configuration that I outlined with a single view class?

Answer 1

Hmmm...perhaps a solution such as this may be sufficient (modify for your project models as required):
from rest_framework import viewsets
class ProjectViewSet(viewsets.ViewSet):
"""
A simple ViewSet for listing or retrieving, creating and updating projects.
"""
def list(self, request):
....
def create(self, request, pk=None):
....
def update(self, request, pk=None):
....
Then in urls.py:
from myapp.views import ProjectViewSet
from rest_framework.routers import DefaultRouter
router = DefaultRouter()
router.register(r'project', UserViewSet.as_view({'get': 'list'}), base_name='projects')
router.register(r'project/create', UserViewSet.as_view({'post': 'create'}), base_name='project_create')
router.register(r'project/edit', UserViewSet.as_view({'put': 'update'}), base_name='project_update')
urlpatterns = router.urls
Hopefully, with a little modification for your code and url structure - this will work!

Answer 2

Define views as,
from rest_framework.views import APIView
from rest_framework.response import Response
class ProjectView(APIView):
def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
# your code GET method code
return Response("This is GET method")
def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
# your code POST method code
return Response("This is POST method")
def put(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
# your code PUT method code
return Response("This is PUT method")
and change your urls.py as,
urlpatterns = [
url(r'project/', ProjectView.as_view(), name='project_list'),
url(r'project/create/', ProjectView.as_view(), name='project_create'),
url(r'project/edit/', ProjectView.as_view(), name='project_edit')
]