django-rest-framework limit the allowed_methods to GET - django

Question

I Have just started with django-rest-framework.
Pretty enthousiastic about it, except for the fact there are very little examples available.
getting the api working is going great, but all the extra's is a puzzle.
(adding extra custom fields etc.)
Now I wonder how you can restrict the allowed_methods in for example a ListView or a DetailView.
Adding this to the class in the views.py like I read somewhere as an answer... does not seem to have any effect:
allowed_methods = ('GET',)

Answer 1

If you are using ModelViewSet and still want to restrict some methods you can add http_method_names.
Example:
class SomeModelViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
queryset = SomeModel.objects.all()
serializer_class = SomeModelSerializer
http_method_names = ['get', 'post', 'head']
Once you do this, get, post and head will be allowed. But put, patch and delete will not be allowed.

Answer 2

Sorry for necro, but I stumbled upon this question looking for a similar issue.
I only wanted to allow retrieve() but not to list(). What I ended up doing:
from rest_framework import viewsets
from rest_framework.exceptions import MethodNotAllowed
from myapp.models import MyModel
class MyViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
http_method_names = ["get"]
queryset = MyModel.objects.all()
serializer_class = MySerializer
def list(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
raise MethodNotAllowed("GET")

Answer 3

As almost everything in django-rest-framework, once you find it out, its very simple.
In the urls in stead of using ListOrCreateModelView I had to use ListModelView.

Answer 4

Besides the http_method_names, there's this solution that Django Rest Framework proposes in here: https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/viewsets/#custom-viewset-base-classes
It consists on inheriting from GenericViewSet instead of ModelViewSet, and from the appropiate mixin classes.
If you want a viewset that provides only the list and retrieve methods (both of them use GET), then do this:
class ListRetrieveViewSet(
Viewsets.GenericViewSet,
mixins.ListModelMixin,
mixins.RetrieveModelMixin,
)

Answer 5

Probably not relevant anymore based on recent years downvotes.. It was relevant in '12 tho :)
Django-rest-framework actually have very many examples..
Take a look at http://django-rest-framework.org, http://django-rest-framework.org/contents.html and http://rest.ep.io/ for some good examples and documentation.
If you are designing a REST function by yourself, not using any of the django-rest-framework magic (like rest.ep.io) to generate it for you, you should look into mixin (http://django-rest-framework.org/howto/mixin.html).
If you want to restrict to only get methods. Just use def get(...) and the mixin class.
Example from link provided:
curl -X GET http://rest.ep.io/mixin/
urls.py
from djangorestframework.compat import View
from djangorestframework.mixins import ResponseMixin
from djangorestframework.renderers import DEFAULT_RENDERERS
from djangorestframework.response import Response
from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, url
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
class ExampleView(ResponseMixin, View):
renderers = DEFAULT_RENDERERS
def get(self, request):
response = Response(200, {'description': 'Some example content',
'url': reverse('mixin-view')})
return self.render(response)
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^$', ExampleView.as_view(), name='mixin-view'),
)