Question

Is there a way to force DetailView/ListView to generate an XML file instead of an HTML?

I have already created an XML Template and it renders correctly, but the DetaiView doesn’t allow to set the mimetype.

Any Ideas?

Thank you!

Answer 1

DetailView inherits from SingleObjectTemplateResponseMixin which inherits from TemplateResponseMixin which has a method render_to_response in which the mimemtype can be set. So, something like

class MyView(DetailView):
    def render_to_response(self, context, **response_kwargs):
        return super(MyView, self).render_to_response(
            context,
            mimetype='application/xml',
            **response_kwargs)

should work