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@@ -19,22 +19,28 @@ REST framework provides two utility functions to make it more simple to return a
There's no requirement for you to use them, but if you do then the self-describing API will be able to automatically hyperlink it's output for you, which makes browsing the API much easier.
-## reverse(viewname, request, *args, **kwargs)
+## reverse
+
+**Signature:** `reverse(viewname, request, *args, **kwargs)`
Has the same behavior as [`django.core.urlresolvers.reverse`][reverse], except that it returns a fully qualified URL, using the request to determine the host and port.
+ import datetime
from rest_framework.utils import reverse
from rest_framework.views import APIView
- class MyView(APIView):
+ class APIRootView(APIView):
def get(self, request):
- content = {
+ year = datetime.datetime.now().year
+ data = {
...
- 'url': reverse('year-summary', request, args=[1945])
+ 'year-summary-url': reverse('year-summary', request, args=[year])
}
- return Response(content)
+ return Response(data)
+
+## reverse_lazy
-## reverse_lazy(viewname, request, *args, **kwargs)
+**Signature:** `reverse_lazy(viewname, request, *args, **kwargs)`
Has the same behavior as [`django.core.urlresolvers.reverse_lazy`][reverse-lazy], except that it returns a fully qualified URL, using the request to determine the host and port.