[Django]-How to expose non-model module methods via Django Rest Framework?

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If you need the new entry point to be listed, you’ll need to inherit from a ViewSet (note that I’m not speaking about ModelViewSet).

I wrote a short guide + sample project on how to do that here: https://medium.com/@linovia/django-rest-framework-viewset-when-you-don-t-have-a-model-335a0490ba6f

You won’t need all the ViewSet methods, probably just the list one according to your comments.

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in your urls.py, you’re giving router.register() a DistanceView, which is of type APIView, But you’ll have to specify a ViewSet for that.

django-rest-framework can only determine url mapping for ViewSets. So instead you can manually map the url, like you would do with default django apps.

urls.py

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'distance', views.DistanceView),
]
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