Question

I Have just started with django-rest-framework.
Pretty enthousiastic about it, except for the fact there are very little examples available.
getting the api working is going great, but all the extra’s is a puzzle.
(adding extra custom fields etc.)

Now I wonder how you can restrict the allowed_methods in for example a ListView or a DetailView.
Adding this to the class in the views.py like I read somewhere as an answer… does not seem to have any effect:

allowed_methods = ('GET',)

Answer 1

Probably not relevant anymore based on recent years downvotes.. It was relevant in ’12 tho 🙂

Django-rest-framework actually have very many examples..

Take a look at http://django-rest-framework.org, http://django-rest-framework.org/contents.html and http://rest.ep.io/ for some good examples and documentation.

If you are designing a REST function by yourself, not using any of the django-rest-framework magic (like rest.ep.io) to generate it for you, you should look into mixin (http://django-rest-framework.org/howto/mixin.html).

If you want to restrict to only get methods. Just use def get(…) and the mixin class.

Example from link provided:

curl -X GET http://rest.ep.io/mixin/

urls.py

from djangorestframework.compat import View
from djangorestframework.mixins import ResponseMixin
from djangorestframework.renderers import DEFAULT_RENDERERS
from djangorestframework.response import Response

from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, url
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse


class ExampleView(ResponseMixin, View):
    renderers = DEFAULT_RENDERERS

    def get(self, request):
        response = Response(200, {'description': 'Some example content',
                                  'url': reverse('mixin-view')})
        return self.render(response)


urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^$', ExampleView.as_view(), name='mixin-view'),
)