Get object by field other than primary key

Question

Hi I\'m new to both Django and the Django-Rest-Framework. I\'ve gone through the tutorials. What I\'m trying to do (as a learning exercise) is return an object based off a f

Answer 1

So I figured it out. What was going on was the

router.register(r'videos', views.VideosViewSet)

Was handling myserver:8000/videos/1 and so my a new url pattern url(r'^videos/(?P.+)/$', views.VideoDetailView.as_view()) was being overridden by the registered route. The code that works is:

urls.py

url(r'^video/(?P.+)/$', views.VideoDetailView.as_view())

views.py

class VideoDetailView(generics.ListAPIView):
    serializer_class = VideosSerializer

    def get_queryset(self):
        videoName = self.kwargs['videoName']
        return Videos.objects.filter(videoName=videoName)

This documentation page on filtering against the URL helped me piece together what was going on.