Stop Django from rendering JSON response

Question

I'm using Django with rest_framework and in my views I'm using the rest_framework.viewsets, I stopped rest_framework to show it's fancy interface using:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES': ('rest_framework.renderers.JSONRenderer'),
}

But now Django is rendering the JSON response

I want it always to return Raw Data

How can I do that?

Django is not rendering that interface, it's your browser that does that for json. Check How can you disable the new JSON Viewer/Reader in Firefox Developer Edition? — Abdul Aziz Barkat
– Abdul Aziz Barkat, Commented Feb 7, 2021 at 6:24

Rahul Arora · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-07 06:09:14Z

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You can try writing your custom renderer.

Example:

from django.utils.encoding import smart_text
from rest_framework import renderers


class PlainTextRenderer(renderers.BaseRenderer):
    media_type = 'text/plain'
    format = 'txt'

    def render(self, data, media_type=None, renderer_context=None):
        return smart_text(data, encoding=self.charset)

The default charset with a custom renderer is UTF-8. If you want to change that you can read more about that here https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/renderers/

answered Feb 7, 2021 at 6:09

Rahul Arora

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Mohammad Over a year ago

Thanks my friend 👍🏼. It turned out to be a Firefox thing, not Django. But it also a good solution despite the fact that the returned data is OrderedDict.

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