Registering API in apps

Question

With django-rest-framework I\'m using the DefaultRouter

I want to provide APIs to several apps, so my question is can I do this in a django manner and put m

Answer 1

Both options are possible. You can either expose the router or the urls in each app, and merge those into your global urls. I usually prefer using urls (option 2) because it gives more flexibility in each app: you can define extra non-api URLs as needed.

Option 1

In your global urls.py:

from app1.api.routers import router1
from app2.api.routers import router2

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^snippets/', include('snippets.urls', namespace="snippets"))
    ...
    url(r'^app1/api/', include(router1.urls)),
    url(r'^app2/api/', include(router2.urls)),
)

You can as easily use the same endpoint for both routers (as long as you're careful not to use conflicting routes):

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^snippets/', include('snippets.urls', namespace="snippets"))
    ...
    url(r'^api/', include(router1.urls)),
    url(r'^api/', include(router2.urls)),
)

Option 2

In appN/api/urls.py:

router = DefaultRouter()
router.register(r'users', views.UserViewSet)
router.register(include('app1.apis')

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^', include(router.urls)),
    url(r'^misc/', some_other_view),
)

In your global urls.py:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^snippets/', include('snippets.urls', namespace="snippets"))
    ...
    url(r'^api/', include('app1.api.urls')),
    url(r'^api/', include('app2.api.urls')),
)

Note that the urls modules do not need to be the same as the urls for standard views.