How to limit url parameters in Django REST Framework's Router to ints?

Question

When I have an urls.py file like this:

# urls.py
router = SimpleRouter(trailing_slash=False)
router.register("/?", MembersController, basename="member")
urlpatterns = router.urls

Then the generated URL for the single object is (?P<pk>[^/.]+)$. I'd like for it to include the int: "converter type". Is that possible at all? Or would I have to stop using DRF's router and create my own URL patterns?

willeM_ Van Onsem · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-27 20:53:22Z

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In your MembersController you can specify the '[0-9]+' as lookup_value_regex:

class MembersController(ModelViewSet):
    lookup_value_regex = '[0-9]+'
    # ⋮

as default it makes use of '[^/.]+', as we can see in the source code [GitHub]:

lookup_value = getattr(viewset, 'lookup_value_regex', '[^/.]+')

answered Aug 27, 2021 at 20:53

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Kevin Renskers Over a year ago

Thank you for the quick and helpful answer!

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