I just updated to Django Rest Framework 3.1 and it seems that all hell broke loose.
in my serializers.py I was having the following code:
I realize over a year has passed since this was posted but hoping this helps others. The response to my similar question was the solution for me. I am using DRF 3.2.3.
Django Rest Framework 3.2.3 pagination not working for generics.ListCreateAPIView
Seeing how it was implemented gave me the solution needed to get pagination + the controls in the visible API.
https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/blob/master/rest_framework/mixins.py#L39