ViewSets

We have seen how we can optimize our code and make it more concise using class-based generic views. Viewsets and Routers help us further simplify our code. As the name indicates, viewsets are a set of views represented in a single class. For example, we used the AllBooks view to return a list of all books in the application and the BookDetail view to return the details of a single book. Using viewsets, we could combine both these classes into a single class.

DRF also provides a class named ModelViewSet. This class not only combines the two views mentioned in the preceding discussion (that is, list and detail) but also allows you to create, update, and delete model instances. The code needed to implement all this functionality could be as simple as specifying the serializer and queryset. For example, a view that allows you to manage all these actions for your user model could be defined as tersely as the following:

class UserViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
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