how overwrite Response class in django rest framework ( DRF )?

Question

I want to overwrite Response class of django rest framework so that response back responsive dictionary contain three parameter message, stat

Answer 1

To resolve this, best practice (that DRF has proposed) is to use 'renderer' classes. A renderer manipulates and returns structured response.

Django uses renderers like Template Renderer and DRF benefits this feature and provides API Renderers.

To do so, you could provide such this renderer in a package (e.g. app_name.renderers.ApiRenderer):

from rest_framework.renderers import BaseRenderer
from rest_framework.utils import json


class ApiRenderer(BaseRenderer):

    def render(self, data, accepted_media_type=None, renderer_context=None):
        response_dict = {
            'status': 'failure',
            'data': {},
            'message': '',
        }
        if data.get('data'):
            response_dict['data'] = data.get('data')
        if data.get('status'):
            response_dict['status'] = data.get('status')
        if data.get('message'):
            response_dict['message'] = data.get('message')
        data = response_dict
        return json.dumps(data)

And then in your settings file:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    ...
    'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES': (
        'app_name.renderers.ApiRenderer',
    ),
    ...
}

By this action all views that extend DRF generic views will use renderer. If you needed to override setting you can use renderer_classes attribute for generic view classes and @renderer_classes decorator for api view functions.

A comprehensive renderer class to override is available at /lib/python3.6/site-packages/rest_framework/renderers.py.