How to use other URLs in CRUD API using Django Rest Framework

Question

I am trying to make a CRUD API using the Django Rest Framework.

Here is my urls.py

router = routers.DefaultRouter()
router.register('products', ProductView)

# router.register('products/delete/<id>', ProductView)
(This is not working)

urlpatterns = [
    path('', include(router.urls)),
]

Here is my views.py

class ProductView(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    queryset = Products.objects.all()
    serializer_class = ProductSerializer

By using the above code I can fetch a list of all products ---

1) localhost/products (This gives a list of all products)

2) localhost/products/1 (This gives a product with id 1)

How to use other URLs for operations such as Delete, Update etc.

This above code is working. Nothing is wrong . I Just want to know how to use other routes from the client.

Answer 1

By this configuration, you will have two URLs

• localhost/products/
• localhost/products/<product_pk>/

But, the difference is which method is used to interact with the API . I hope you already know we have got POST , PUT , PATCH , DELETE etc HTTP methods and these above APIs are capable of those HTTP methods.

You can see the entire URL configuration (as table) in DRF doc