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Does this look like a reasonable way to bootstrap a view with details of a local Django REST Framework api? My goal is to avoid my app from having to fetch the root and options before it can start rendering...
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from api.urls import router | |
from django.core.serializers import serialize | |
from django.core.serializers.json import DjangoJSONEncoder | |
from django.utils import simplejson | |
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe | |
def test_ui(request): | |
"Simple view to bootstrap the ui based on the rest api" | |
endpoints = router.get_api_root_view()(request).data | |
names = endpoints.keys() | |
data = {} | |
for (prefix, viewset, basename) in router.registry: | |
if prefix in names: | |
data[prefix] = dict(url=endpoints[prefix], options=viewset().options(request).data) | |
api = mark_safe(simplejson.dumps(data, cls=DjangoJSONEncoder)) | |
return render(request, 'ui.html', dict(api=api)) |
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