Never deepcopy validators. Closes #913

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/rest_framework/views.py b/rest_framework/views.py
index e1b6705b..0c1ea7d7 100644
--- a/rest_framework/views.py
+++ b/rest_framework/views.py
@@ -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]