django-rest-envelope 1.1.0

A mixin for Django REST package List Views to return an object instead of a list.

Django REST Envelop

Turn the ViewSet list endpoints to return an object rather than a list directly.

Installation

From PYPi using pip:

pip install django-rest-envelope

Usage

In your viewset views, you can use the ListEnvelopeMixin along with another mixin that defines the list() method:

class MyViewSet(ListEnvelopeMixin, ReadOnlyModelViewSet):
    envelope: "my_envelope"

In your ViewSet class that uses the mixin you have to define the envelope attribute.

Additionally, you can overwrite the get_envelope() method to tweak the behaviour of which envelope use in different situations.

Example

By default, django REST ViewSets return a list:

[
  { "id": 1, "foo": "bar" },
  { "id": 2, "foo": "baz" }
]

Once the mixin is applied to that same ViewSet, you get, instead, the following response:

{
  "my_envelope": [
    { "id": 1, "foo": "bar" },
    { "id": 2, "foo": "baz" }
  ]
}

Licence

This package is distributed under MIT Licence.