Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into writable-nested-modelserializer

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/rest_framework/views.py b/rest_framework/views.py
index e1b6705b..c28d2835 100644
--- a/rest_framework/views.py
+++ b/rest_framework/views.py
@@ -304,10 +304,10 @@ class APIView(View):
         `.dispatch()` is pretty much the same as Django's regular dispatch,
         but with extra hooks for startup, finalize, and exception handling.
         """
-        request = self.initialize_request(request, *args, **kwargs)
-        self.request = request
         self.args = args
         self.kwargs = kwargs
+        request = self.initialize_request(request, *args, **kwargs)
+        self.request = request
         self.headers = self.default_response_headers  # deprecate?
 
         try:
@@ -341,8 +341,15 @@ class APIView(View):
         Return a dictionary of metadata about the view.
         Used to return responses for OPTIONS requests.
         """
+
+        # This is used by ViewSets to disambiguate instance vs list views
+        view_name_suffix = getattr(self, 'suffix', None)
+
+        # By default we can't provide any form-like information, however the
+        # generic views override this implementation and add additional
+        # information for POST and PUT methods, based on the serializer.
         ret = SortedDict()
-        ret['name'] = get_view_name(self.__class__)
+        ret['name'] = get_view_name(self.__class__, view_name_suffix)
         ret['description'] = get_view_description(self.__class__)
         ret['renders'] = [renderer.media_type for renderer in self.renderer_classes]
         ret['parses'] = [parser.media_type for parser in self.parser_classes]