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

What about a solution just like this:

views.py

class VideoDetailView(generics.RetrieveAPIView):
    serializer_class = VideosSerializer
    lookup_field = 'videoName'

reasoning: you want a detailview, so there is no need for ListView but RetriveAPIView

if some furthere manipulation will be needed just override get_object method like this:

def get_object(self):
    obj = super(VideoDetailView, self).get_object()
    # perform some extra checks on obj, e.g custom permissions
    return obj