Post request handling in Django Rest framework - django

Question

I am using Django Rest Framework, currently to pull some data from the backend we are using Get request, but due to URL limit going high we are planning to implement a Post request. To do this firstly the backend Django Rest API has to be made available to serve a post request.
I am new to Django and I don't find a post or get method in the code, all i can say is we are using viewsets, I tried using "#detail_route(methods=['post'])" but this didn't work, what am I doing wrong here?
class XViewSet(viewsets.ViewSet):
renderer_classes = ''
def retrieve(self, request, pk=None):
try:
pk = int(pk)
except ValueError:
raise InvalidParameterError(parameter_name='id', invalid_value=pk)
queryset = models.X.objects.all()
x = get_object_or_404(queryset, pk=pk)
pipelines = request.query_params.getlist('pipeline[]')
callsets =
callset_ids =
serializer = serializers.XSerializer(x, context={'request': request})
requested_samples = [z[1:] for z in request.query_params.getlist('s')]
filtered_calls = []
serialized_data = serializer.data
unfiltered_calls = serialized_data.get('calls')
if unfiltered_calls:
for serialized_calls in unfiltered_calls:
if serialized_calls['callset'] in callset_ids:
unfiltered_calls = serialized_calls['data']
for call in unfiltered_calls:
if call['y'] in requested_y:
filtered_calls.append(call)
break
serialized_data['calls'] = filtered_calls
return Response(serialized_data, status=status.HTTP_200_OK)
def list(self, request):
qp = self.request.query_params
validated_qp =
# generate the query
query_object =
query =
# execute the query
cursor = connections['default'].cursor()
cursor.execute(query)
qs = utils.dictfetchall(cursor)
# sanitize query results
if 't' in validated_qp:
return_data =
else:
for x in qs:
if 'calls' in x:
x['calls'] =
else:
x['calls'] = {}
return_data =
resp = Response(return_data, status=status.HTTP_200_OK)
if validated_qp.get(''):
resp['content-disposition'] =
return resp

Answer 1

You can use class-based views to handle the requirements,
from rest_framework.views import APIView
class MyAPI(APIView):
def get(selfself, request):
# do stuff with get
return Response(data="return msg or data")
def post(self, request):
post_data = request.data
# do something with `post_data`
return Response(data="return msg or data")
UPDATE : Using ViewSet
ViewSet class provide us create() methode to create new model instances. So we can override that to handle post data coming to the view. Just add a create() under your view class as below
class XViewSet(viewsets.ViewSet):
renderer_classes = ''
def create(self, request): # Here is the new update comes <<<<
post_data = request.data
# do something with post data
return Response(data="return data")
def retrieve(self, request, pk=None):
# your code
return Response(serialized_data, status=status.HTTP_200_OK)
def list(self, request):
# your code
return resp