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

Using ModelViewSets you can use @action decorator you can define specific method if you don't want to change the complete lookup behavior of the viewset and serializer. For example:

class VideoDetailView(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    queryset = Videos.objects.all()
    serializer_class = VideosSerializer

    @action(detail=True)
    def video_name(self, request, pk=None):
        queryset = Video.objects.get(videoName=pk) # pk will be the video name
        serializer = VideosSerializer(queryset, many=True) # You can specify other serializer if you want here
        return Response(serializer.data)

Then, your url will be: myserver:8000/videos/SecondVideo/video_name/

You can read more in: https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/viewsets/