Settings

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Configuration for REST framework is all namespaced inside a single Django setting, named REST_FRAMEWORK.

For example your project's settings.py file might include something like this:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES': (
        'rest_framework.renderers.YAMLRenderer',
    )
    'DEFAULT_PARSER_CLASSES': (
        'rest_framework.parsers.YAMLParser',
    )
}

Accessing settings

If you need to access the values of REST framework's API settings in your project, you should use the api_settings object. For example.

from rest_framework.settings import api_settings

print api_settings.DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES

The api_settings object will check for any user-defined settings, and otherwise fallback to the default values. Any setting that uses string import paths to refer to a class will automatically import and return the referenced class, instead of the string literal.

API Reference

DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES

A list or tuple of renderer classes, that determines the default set of renderers that may be used when returning a Response object.

Default:

(
    'rest_framework.renderers.JSONRenderer',
    'rest_framework.renderers.BrowsableAPIRenderer'
    'rest_framework.renderers.TemplateHTMLRenderer'
)

DEFAULT_PARSER_CLASSES

A list or tuple of parser classes, that determines the default set of parsers used when accessing the request.DATA property.

Default:

(
    'rest_framework.parsers.JSONParser',
    'rest_framework.parsers.FormParser'
)

DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES

A list or tuple of authentication classes, that determines the default set of authenticators used when accessing the request.user or request.auth properties.

Default:

(
    'rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication',
    'rest_framework.authentication.UserBasicAuthentication'
)

DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES

A list or tuple of permission classes, that determines the default set of permissions checked at the start of a view.

Default: ()

DEFAULT_THROTTLE_CLASSES

A list or tuple of throttle classes, that determines the default set of throttles checked at the start of a view.

Default: ()

DEFAULT_MODEL_SERIALIZER_CLASS

TODO

Default: rest_framework.serializers.ModelSerializer

DEFAULT_PAGINATION_SERIALIZER_CLASS

TODO

Default: rest_framework.pagination.PaginationSerializer

FORMAT_SUFFIX_KWARG

TODO

Default: 'format'

UNAUTHENTICATED_USER

The class that should be used to initialize request.user for unauthenticated requests.

Default: django.contrib.auth.models.AnonymousUser

UNAUTHENTICATED_TOKEN

The class that should be used to initialize request.auth for unauthenticated requests.

Default: None

FORM_METHOD_OVERRIDE

The name of a form field that may be used to override the HTTP method of the form.

If the value of this setting is None then form method overloading will be disabled.

Default: '_method'

FORM_CONTENT_OVERRIDE

The name of a form field that may be used to override the content of the form payload. Must be used together with FORM_CONTENTTYPE_OVERRIDE.

If either setting is None then form content overloading will be disabled.

Default: '_content'

FORM_CONTENTTYPE_OVERRIDE

The name of a form field that may be used to override the content type of the form payload. Must be used together with FORM_CONTENT_OVERRIDE.

If either setting is None then form content overloading will be disabled.

Default: '_content_type'

URL_ACCEPT_OVERRIDE

The name of a URL parameter that may be used to override the HTTP Accept header.

If the value of this setting is None then URL accept overloading will be disabled.

Default: 'accept'

URL_FORMAT_OVERRIDE

Default: 'format'