from djangorestframework.compat import View # Use Django 1.3's django.views.generic.View, or fall back to a clone of that if Django < 1.3 from djangorestframework.mixins import ResponseMixin from djangorestframework.renderers import DEFAULT_RENDERERS from djangorestframework.response import Response from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, url from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse class ExampleView(ResponseMixin, View): """An example view using Django 1.3's class based views. Uses djangorestframework's RendererMixin to provide support for multiple output formats.""" renderers = DEFAULT_RENDERERS def get(self, request): response = Response(200, {'description': 'Some example content', 'url': reverse('mixin-view')}) return self.emit(response) urlpatterns = patterns('', url(r'^$', ExampleView.as_view(), name='mixin-view'), )