Renderers

Setting the renderers

The default set of renderers may be set globally, using the DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES setting. For example, the following settings would use XML as the main media type and also include the self describing API.

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES': (
        'rest_framework_xml.renderers.XMLRenderer',
    )
}

You can also set the renderers used for an individual view, or viewset, using the APIView class based views.

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from rest_framework.response import Response
from rest_framework.views import APIView
from rest_framework_xml.renderers import XMLRenderer

class UserCountView(APIView):
    """
    A view that returns the count of active users in XML.
    """
    renderer_classes = (XMLRenderer,)

    def get(self, request, format=None):
        user_count = User.objects.filter(active=True).count()
        content = {'user_count': user_count}
        return Response(content)

Or, if you're using the @api_view decorator with function based views.

@api_view(['GET'])
@renderer_classes((XMLRenderer,))
def user_count_view(request, format=None):
    """
    A view that returns the count of active users in XML.
    """
    user_count = User.objects.filter(active=True).count()
    content = {'user_count': user_count}
    return Response(content)

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API Reference

XMLRenderer

Renders REST framework's default style of XML response content.

Note that the XML markup language is used typically used as the base language for more strictly defined domain-specific languages, such as RSS, Atom, and XHTML.

If you are considering using XML for your API, you may want to consider implementing a custom renderer and parser for your specific requirements, and using an existing domain-specific media-type, or creating your own custom XML-based media-type.

.media_type: application/xml

.format: '.xml'

.charset: utf-8

item_tag_name: list-item

.root_tag_name: root