From 92c630ef2417093f1e5cd04b6117e963fd011ddb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Demmer <fdemmer@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 14:27:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add kwargs to get_serializer_context

to add something to the context you can easily overload the get_serializer_context method. inside you have to call super to get the context, add your stuff and return it. it would save a little boilerplate if we would a take kwargs on the original method. that way the overloaded method is reduced to just the super call with the additional parameters for the context.

instead of:

    def get_serializer_context(self):
        context = super(SuperClass, self).get_serializer_context()
        context.update(dict(
            example=True
        ))
        return context


just do:

    def get_serializer_context(self):
        return super(SuperClass, self).get_serializer_context(
            example=True
        )
---
 rest_framework/generics.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rest_framework/generics.py b/rest_framework/generics.py
index 3d6cf1684..862464b00 100644
--- a/rest_framework/generics.py
+++ b/rest_framework/generics.py
@@ -69,15 +69,17 @@ class GenericAPIView(views.APIView):
     # and should be considered private API.
     paginator_class = Paginator
 
-    def get_serializer_context(self):
+    def get_serializer_context(self, **kwargs):
         """
         Extra context provided to the serializer class.
         """
-        return {
+        context = {
             'request': self.request,
             'format': self.format_kwarg,
             'view': self
         }
+        context.update(**kwargs)
+        return context
 
     def get_serializer(self, instance=None, data=None, many=False, partial=False):
         """