I have multiple API which historically work using id as the lookup field:
/api/organization/10
I have a frontend consuming tho
class MultipleFieldLookupMixin(object):
"""
Apply this mixin to any view or viewset to get multiple field filtering
based on a `lookup_fields` attribute, instead of the default single field filtering.
"""
def get_object(self):
queryset = self.get_queryset() # Get the base queryset
queryset = self.filter_queryset(queryset)
filter = {}
for field in self.lookup_fields:
if self.kwargs[field]: # Ignore empty fields.
filter[field] = self.kwargs[field]
return get_object_or_404(queryset, **filter) # Lookup the object
class RetrieveUserView(MultipleFieldLookupMixin, generics.RetrieveAPIView):
queryset = User.objects.all()
serializer_class = UserSerializer
lookup_fields = ('account', 'username')