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<h1 id="metadata"><a class="toclink" href="#metadata">Metadata</a></h1>
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<p>[The <code>OPTIONS</code>] method allows a client to determine the options and/or requirements associated with a resource, or the capabilities of a server, without implying a resource action or initiating a resource retrieval.</p>
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<p>— <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-4.3.7">RFC7231, Section 4.3.7.</a></p>
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<p>REST framework includes a configurable mechanism for determining how your API should respond to <code>OPTIONS</code> requests. This allows you to return API schema or other resource information.</p>
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<p>You can set the metadata class globally using the <code>'DEFAULT_METADATA_CLASS'</code> settings key:</p>
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<pre><code>REST_FRAMEWORK = {
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'DEFAULT_METADATA_CLASS': 'rest_framework.metadata.SimpleMetadata'
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<pre><code>class APIRoot(APIView):
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metadata_class = APIRootMetadata
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<p>The REST framework package only includes a single metadata class implementation, named <code>SimpleMetadata</code>. If you want to use an alternative style you'll need to implement a custom metadata class.</p>
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<p>If you have specific requirements for creating schema endpoints that are accessed with regular <code>GET</code> requests, you might consider re-using the metadata API for doing so.</p>
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<p>For example, the following additional route could be used on a viewset to provide a linkable schema endpoint.</p>
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<pre><code>@list_route(methods=['GET'])
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def schema(self, request):
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<p>There are a couple of reasons that you might choose to take this approach, including that <code>OPTIONS</code> responses <a href="https://www.mnot.net/blog/2012/10/29/NO_OPTIONS">are not cacheable</a>.</p>
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<p>If you want to provide a custom metadata class you should override <code>BaseMetadata</code> and implement the <code>determine_metadata(self, request, view)</code> method.</p>
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<p>Useful things that you might want to do could include returning schema information, using a format such as <a href="http://json-schema.org/">JSON schema</a>, or returning debug information to admin users.</p>
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<pre><code>class MinimalMetadata(BaseMetadata):
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"""
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'DEFAULT_METADATA_CLASS': 'myproject.apps.core.MinimalMetadata'
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<h2 id="drf-schema-adapter"><a class="toclink" href="#drf-schema-adapter">DRF-schema-adapter</a></h2>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/drf-forms/drf-schema-adapter">drf-schema-adapter</a> is a set of tools that makes it easier to provide schema information to frontend frameworks and libraries. It provides a metadata mixin as well as 2 metadata classes and several adapters suitable to generate <a href="http://json-schema.org/">json-schema</a> as well as schema information readable by various libraries.</p>
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<p>You can also write your own adapter to work with your specific frontend.
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