[Fixed]-Django Rest Framework customizations

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DRF has an inbuilt mechanism to help with this but on request method support is GET. Here’s the reference from the documentation: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/routers/#simplerouter

The work around could be to override the post function in your view and take the argument add as input to it. For example,

urls.py

url(r'users/(?P<id>[\d]+)/(?P<method>add)/$, UserListView.as_view)

views.py

    def post(self,request, *args, **kwargs):
         method = kwargs.get('method')   # value should be "add"
         # check if the method exist in the view
         # if yes, call it
         method_obj = getattr(self, method)
         if method_obj:
                data = request.POST #{'id':'joe}
                id = data.get('id') 
                method_obj(id=id)
   def add(self, id):
         #do soemthing

Update:

POST data i.e. {"id":"joe"} is available in the request and can be accessed via request.POST.

👤Raunak Agarwal

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