Merge 80163ed01e into 44e9749e36

docs/api-guide/settings.md

@@ -150,4 +150,8 @@ Default: `'accept'`
 
 Default: `'format'`
 
+## USE_ABSOLUTE_URLS
+
+Default: `'True'`
+
 [cite]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

docs/topics/release-notes.md

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 ## Master
 
 * Support for `read_only_fields` on `ModelSerializer` classes.
+* Add support and settings option `USE_ABSOLUTE_URLS`
 
 ## 2.1.2
 

rest_framework/pagination.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from rest_framework import serializers
+from rest_framework.settings import api_settings
 from rest_framework.templatetags.rest_framework import replace_query_param
 
 # TODO: Support URLconf kwarg-style paging
@@ -15,7 +16,13 @@ class NextPageField(serializers.Field):
             return None
         page = value.next_page_number()
         request = self.context.get('request')
-        url = request and request.build_absolute_uri() or ''
+        url = ''
+        if request:
+            if api_settings.USE_ABSOLUTE_URLS:
+                url = request.build_absolute_uri()
+            else:
+                url = request.get_full_path()
+
         return replace_query_param(url, self.page_field, page)
 
 
@@ -30,7 +37,13 @@ class PreviousPageField(serializers.Field):
             return None
         page = value.previous_page_number()
         request = self.context.get('request')
-        url = request and request.build_absolute_uri() or ''
+        url = ''
+        if request:
+            if api_settings.USE_ABSOLUTE_URLS:
+                url = request.build_absolute_uri()
+            else:
+                url = request.get_full_path()
+
         return replace_query_param(url, self.page_field, page)
 
 

rest_framework/reverse.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 """
 Provide reverse functions that return fully qualified URLs
 """
+from rest_framework.settings import api_settings
 from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse as django_reverse
 from django.utils.functional import lazy
 
@@ -14,7 +15,8 @@ def reverse(viewname, args=None, kwargs=None, request=None, format=None, **extra
         kwargs = kwargs or {}
         kwargs['format'] = format
     url = django_reverse(viewname, args=args, kwargs=kwargs, **extra)
-    if request:
+    if api_settings.USE_ABSOLUTE_URLS:
+        assert request, "request is required for building absolute url"
         return request.build_absolute_uri(url)
     return url
 

rest_framework/settings.py

@@ -66,7 +66,9 @@ DEFAULTS = {
     'URL_ACCEPT_OVERRIDE': 'accept',
     'URL_FORMAT_OVERRIDE': 'format',
 
-    'FORMAT_SUFFIX_KWARG': 'format'
+    'FORMAT_SUFFIX_KWARG': 'format',
+
+    'USE_ABSOLUTE_URLS': True
 }