From 660d2405174519628c72ed84a69ae37531df12f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Christie <tom@tomchristie.com>
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 16:48:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] .action attribute on viewsets

---
 rest_framework/viewsets.py | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/rest_framework/viewsets.py b/rest_framework/viewsets.py
index a54467d7e..0eb3e86dc 100644
--- a/rest_framework/viewsets.py
+++ b/rest_framework/viewsets.py
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ class ViewSetMixin(object):
 
         def view(request, *args, **kwargs):
             self = cls(**initkwargs)
+            # We also store the mapping of request methods to actions,
+            # so that we can later set the action attribute.
+            # eg. `self.action = 'list'` on an incoming GET request.
+            self.action_map = actions
 
             # Bind methods to actions
             # This is the bit that's different to a standard view
@@ -87,6 +91,15 @@ class ViewSetMixin(object):
         view.suffix = initkwargs.get('suffix', None)
         return view
 
+    def initialize_request(self, request, *args, **kargs):
+        """
+        Set the `.action` attribute on the view,
+        depending on the request method.
+        """
+        request = super(ViewSetMixin, self).initialize_request(request, *args, **kargs)
+        self.action = self.action_map.get(request.method.lower())
+        return request
+
 
 class ViewSet(ViewSetMixin, views.APIView):
     """