Using djangorestframework to get JSON given just a resource outside of a view

gistfile1.py

from django.http import HttpRequest

from djangorestframework.views import ListOrCreateModelView
from djangorestframework.response import Response
from djangorestframework import status
from djangorestframework.renderers import JSONRenderer

from colorpicks.resources import ColorResource

resource_view = ListOrCreateModelView(resource=ColorResource)
dummy_request = HttpRequest()
response_obj = resource_view.get(dummy_request)
response = Response(status.HTTP_200_OK, response_obj)
jsonr =  JSONRenderer(resource_view)
filtered_content = resource_view.filter_response(response_obj)
json_string = jsonr.render(filtered_content)