[Django]-Context Aware Browsable API Rendering in Django REST

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You can return different serializers in different context, by overriding the get_serializer method on GenericAPIView or any of its subclasses.

Something like this would be about right…

def get_serializer(self, ...):
    if self.request.accepted_renderer.format == 'api':
        # Browsable style
    else:
        # Standard style

If you code that behaviour as a mixin class you’d then be able to easily reuse it throughout your views.

👤Tom Christie

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I created this mixin to use the serializer_class_api when in API mode:

class SerializerAPI(object):
    def get_serializer_class(self, *args, **kwargs):
        parent = super(SerializerAPI, self).get_serializer_class(*args, **kwargs)
        if (hasattr(self.request, 'accepted_renderer') and 
          self.request.accepted_renderer.format == 'api'):
            return self.serializer_class_api
        else:
            return parent
👤Alex Rothberg

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