1 files changed, 11 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/rest_framework/utils/formatting.py b/rest_framework/utils/formatting.py
index 4bec8387..4b59ba84 100644
--- a/rest_framework/utils/formatting.py
+++ b/rest_framework/utils/formatting.py
@@ -5,11 +5,13 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 from django.utils.html import escape
 from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
-from rest_framework.compat import apply_markdown, smart_text
+from rest_framework.compat import apply_markdown
+from rest_framework.settings import api_settings
+from textwrap import dedent
 import re
 
 
-def _remove_trailing_string(content, trailing):
+def remove_trailing_string(content, trailing):
     """
     Strip trailing component `trailing` from `content` if it exists.
     Used when generating names from view classes.
@@ -19,10 +21,14 @@ def _remove_trailing_string(content, trailing):
     return content
 
 
-def _remove_leading_indent(content):
+def dedent(content):
     """
     Remove leading indent from a block of text.
     Used when generating descriptions from docstrings.
+
+    Note that python's `textwrap.dedent` doesn't quite cut it,
+    as it fails to dedent multiline docstrings that include
+    unindented text on the initial line.
     """
     whitespace_counts = [len(line) - len(line.lstrip(' '))
                          for line in content.splitlines()[1:] if line.lstrip()]
@@ -31,11 +37,10 @@ def _remove_leading_indent(content):
     if whitespace_counts:
         whitespace_pattern = '^' + (' ' * min(whitespace_counts))
         content = re.sub(re.compile(whitespace_pattern, re.MULTILINE), '', content)
-    content = content.strip('\n')
-    return content
 
+    return content.strip()
 
-def _camelcase_to_spaces(content):
+def camelcase_to_spaces(content):
     """
     Translate 'CamelCaseNames' to 'Camel Case Names'.
     Used when generating names from view classes.
@@ -44,31 +49,6 @@ def _camelcase_to_spaces(content):
     content = re.sub(camelcase_boundry, ' \\1', content).strip()
     return ' '.join(content.split('_')).title()
 
-
-def get_view_name(cls, suffix=None):
-    """
-    Return a formatted name for an `APIView` class or `@api_view` function.
-    """
-    name = cls.__name__
-    name = _remove_trailing_string(name, 'View')
-    name = _remove_trailing_string(name, 'ViewSet')
-    name = _camelcase_to_spaces(name)
-    if suffix:
-        name += ' ' + suffix
-    return name
-
-
-def get_view_description(cls, html=False):
-    """
-    Return a description for an `APIView` class or `@api_view` function.
-    """
-    description = cls.__doc__ or ''
-    description = _remove_leading_indent(smart_text(description))
-    if html:
-        return markup_description(description)
-    return description
-
-
 def markup_description(description):
     """
     Apply HTML markup to the given description.