diff --git a/docs/tutorial/6-viewsets-and-routers.md b/docs/tutorial/6-viewsets-and-routers.md index f23a435b8..d5ec66004 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/6-viewsets-and-routers.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/6-viewsets-and-routers.md @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ REST framework includes an abstraction for dealing with `ViewSets`, that allows the developer to concentrate on modeling the state and interactions of the API, and leave the URL construction to be handled automatically, based on common conventions. `ViewSet` classes are almost the same thing as `View` classes, except that they provide operations such as `read`, or `update`, and not method handlers such as `get` or `put`. + A `ViewSet` class is only bound to a set of method handlers at the last moment, when it is instantiated into a set of views, typically by using a `Router` class which handles the complexities of defining the URL conf for you. ## Refactoring to use ViewSets