[Django]-How to programmatically call a Django Rest Framework view within another view?

I found the solution for this in the documentation… https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/ref/class-based-views/mixins/

Hint is from their example here:

class AuthorDetail(View):

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        view = AuthorDisplay.as_view()
        return view(request, *args, **kwargs)

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        view = AuthorInterest.as_view()
        return view(request, *args, **kwargs)

As of Django 2.2 and DRF 3.9.2 I am able to get response using below code.

response = UserItemsApiView.as_view()(request=request._request).data

Above example solves below issues:

• The request argument must be an instance of django.http.HttpRequest, not rest_framework.request.Request
• Instead of content, using data attribute gave me result from that view.

The syntax of some of the answers was confusing to me, even though that’s how the django docs explain it:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/ref/class-based-views/base/#django.views.generic.base.View.as_view

So here’s an answer that’s a little more understandable for my small brain:

class MyTemplateView(TemplateView):
    template_name = 'my_template.html'

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)
        view = MyApiView.as_view()
        response = view(request=self.request)
        data = response.data
        context["somedata"] = data
        return context

If I’m understanding correctly, you need to get the result from view B, while inside view A.

Using the requests/urllib2 and json libraries should solve your problem (as specified in this answer).

To get the URL, you can use a combination of request.get_absolute_uri() and/or request.get_host() and django.core.urlresolvers.reverse.