I'm creating an endpoint api/users/ with Django REST framework which should return some data about the user by id. It's all good, but I want to obtain a lookup parameter for my User model from the url's parameters. There are lookup_field and lookup_url_kwarg attributes of GenericAPIView, but they seem to be useless here, because they work with parameters specified in URLConf, if I understand it right. So, my question is how to get object from the db when I go to like /api/users?uid=123? We can surely override get_object() or get_queryset() or any other stuff like this: class UserAPIView(RetrieveUpdateDestroyAPIView, CreateAPIView): serializer_class = UserSerializer queryset = User.objects.all() def get_object(self) -> User: uid = self.request.query_params.get('uid', None) if uid is None or not uid.isdigit(): raise Http404 self.kwargs.update({self.lookup_field: int(uid)}) return super().get_object() but it looks kind of ugly, isn't it? I believe there should be a better way of dealing with it.. Continue reading...
