[Solved]-How to add namespace url to a django-rest-framework router viewset

This is a very old question and the currently accepted answer from Carlton Gibson is just a link to a pull request on GitHub.

When searching the web for using Django REST Framework routers with namespace, it comes first in the results. It seems to be the only question at SO about this topic.
Since there is no concrete answer with code example, here I’d like to add my solution.

Let’s take the EventViewSet from the OP’s question. For this viewset there should be a model class Event and a model serializer EventSerializer.
The EventSerializer could look like this:

class EventSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
    # any other fields
    class Meta:
        model = Event
        # anything else
        extra_kwargs = {
            'url': {'view_name': 'api:event-detail'}
        }

That is an example for HyperlinkedModelSerializer which includes url field.

Any hyperlinked fields like HyperlinkedIdentityField or HyperlinkedRelatedField, which take view_name as an argument should be passed the correct view name containing the namespace, either in the declaration or through the extra_kwargs.
For an assumed CommentSerializer (corresponding to the CommentViewSet) it could look like:

class EventSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
    comments = serializers.HyperlinkedRelatedField(
        many=True,
        read_only=True,
        view_name='api:comment-detail'
    )