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| author | Philip Douglas | 2013-09-10 13:09:25 +0100 |
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| committer | Philip Douglas | 2013-09-10 13:09:25 +0100 |
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diff --git a/docs/api-guide/settings.md b/docs/api-guide/settings.md index 0be0eb24..13f96f9a 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/settings.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/settings.md @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ If you need to access the values of REST framework's API settings in your projec you should use the `api_settings` object. For example. from rest_framework.settings import api_settings - + print api_settings.DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES The `api_settings` object will check for any user-defined settings, and otherwise fall back to the default values. Any setting that uses string import paths to refer to a class will automatically import and return the referenced class, instead of the string literal. @@ -127,6 +127,35 @@ Default: `None` The name of a query parameter, which can be used by the client to override the default page size to use for pagination. If set to `None`, clients may not override the default page size. +For example, given the following settings: + + REST_FRAMEWORK = { + 'PAGINATE_BY': 10, + 'PAGINATE_BY_PARAM': 'page_size', + } + +A client would be able to modify the pagination size by using the `page_size` query parameter. For example: + + GET http://example.com/api/accounts?page_size=25 + +Default: `None` + +#### MAX_PAGINATE_BY + +The maximum page size to allow when the page size is specified by the client. If set to `None`, then no maximum limit is applied. + +For example, given the following settings: + + REST_FRAMEWORK = { + 'PAGINATE_BY': 10, + 'PAGINATE_BY_PARAM': 'page_size', + 'MAX_PAGINATE_BY': 100 + } + +A client request like the following would return a paginated list of up to 100 items. + + GET http://example.com/api/accounts?page_size=999 + Default: `None` --- @@ -274,8 +303,56 @@ Default: `['iso-8601']` --- +## View names and descriptions + +**The following settings are used to generate the view names and descriptions, as used in responses to `OPTIONS` requests, and as used in the browsable API.** + +#### VIEW_NAME_FUNCTION + +A string representing the function that should be used when generating view names. + +This should be a function with the following signature: + + view_name(cls, suffix=None) + +* `cls`: The view class. Typically the name function would inspect the name of the class when generating a descriptive name, by accessing `cls.__name__`. +* `suffix`: The optional suffix used when differentiating individual views in a viewset. + +Default: `'rest_framework.views.get_view_name'` + +#### VIEW_DESCRIPTION_FUNCTION + +A string representing the function that should be used when generating view descriptions. + +This setting can be changed to support markup styles other than the default markdown. For example, you can use it to support `rst` markup in your view docstrings being output in the browsable API. + +This should be a function with the following signature: + + view_description(cls, html=False) + +* `cls`: The view class. Typically the description function would inspect the docstring of the class when generating a description, by accessing `cls.__doc__` +* `html`: A boolean indicating if HTML output is required. `True` when used in the browsable API, and `False` when used in generating `OPTIONS` responses. + +Default: `'rest_framework.views.get_view_description'` + +--- + ## Miscellaneous settings +#### EXCEPTION_HANDLER + +A string representing the function that should be used when returning a response for any given exception. If the function returns `None`, a 500 error will be raised. + +This setting can be changed to support error responses other than the default `{"detail": "Failure..."}` responses. For example, you can use it to provide API responses like `{"errors": [{"message": "Failure...", "code": ""} ...]}`. + +This should be a function with the following signature: + + exception_handler(exc) + +* `exc`: The exception. + +Default: `'rest_framework.views.exception_handler'` + #### FORMAT_SUFFIX_KWARG The name of a parameter in the URL conf that may be used to provide a format suffix. |
