Ability to specify url and view names in detail_route and list_route

[abraithwaite]

I was wondering if there was any plan to add this to DRF?

I'd like to be able to do something like this:

class MyViewSet(ModelViewSet):
    queryset = Users.objects.all()

    @detail_route(methods=["get"], name='stats-aggregation', method_url='stats')
    def statistics_aggregation(self, request, pk=None):
        do_cool_things(request, pk)

And have that appear as a url in the form of /users/4/stats and have the name be stats-aggregation.

It looks like it would only be a matter of adding another argument to the decorator function, binding that to the function object, then adding it as a kwarg to the route constructor (rather, the replace_methodname function).

I'd be willing to take a look at it myself, but I wanted to create an issue first to see if there's any interest or if that area of code is going to change significantly soon.

[tomchristie]

See also #2010

[maryokhin]

In my humble opinion, since routers follow the principle of convention over configuration, having too many arguments on dynamic routes would give too broad of a public API. I think something like:

SimpleRouter(trailing_slash=False, dasherize_routes=True)

Would probably solve 90% of the use-cases, with the other 10% falling into the custom router category.

[tomchristie]

Closing as per #2010.

Given that the only use case I've seen for this is to allow underscored styles instead of hyphenated styles, it'd be better to see someone implement this in hypenated-routers pacakage or similar. The notes in #2010 detail how you'd do that, and we have extensive notes on rolling a third party package... http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/third-party-resources/

[abraithwaite]

Works for me!

Cheers 🍻