Using Routers

Because we're using ViewSet classes rather than View classes, we actually don't need to design the URL conf ourselves. The conventions for wiring up resources into views and urls can be handled automatically, using a Router class. All we need to do is register the appropriate view sets with a router, and let it do the rest.

Here's our re-wired snippets/urls.py file.

from django.urls import path, include
from rest_framework.routers import DefaultRouter
from snippets import views
# Create a router and register our viewsets with it.
router = DefaultRouter()
router.register(r'snippets', views.SnippetViewSet)
router.register(r'users', views.UserViewSet)
# The API URLs are now determined automatically by the router.
urlpatterns = [
    path('', include(router.urls)),
]

Registering the viewsets with the router is similar to providing a urlpattern. We include two arguments - the URL prefix for the views, and the viewset itself.

The DefaultRouter class we're using also automatically creates the API root view for us, so we can now delete the api_root method from our views module.