Quickstart¶
Configuration¶
To enable Datatables support in your project, add 'rest_framework_datatables'
to your INSTALLED_APPS
, and modify your REST_FRAMEWORK
settings like this:
REST_FRAMEWORK = {
'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES': (
'rest_framework.renderers.JSONRenderer',
'rest_framework.renderers.BrowsableAPIRenderer',
'rest_framework_datatables.renderers.DatatablesRenderer',
),
'DEFAULT_FILTER_BACKENDS': (
'rest_framework_datatables.filters.DatatablesFilterBackend',
),
'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS': 'rest_framework_datatables.pagination.DatatablesPageNumberPagination',
'PAGE_SIZE': 50,
}
What have we done so far ?
- we added the
rest_framework_datatables.renderers.DatatablesRenderer
to existings renderers - we added the
rest_framework_datatables.filters.DatatablesFilterBackend
to the filter backends - we replaced the pagination class by
rest_framework_datatables.pagination.DatatablesPageNumberPagination
Note
If you are using rest_framework.pagination.LimitOffsetPagination
as pagination class, relax and don’t panic !
django-rest-framework-datatables can handle that, just replace it with rest_framework_datatables.pagination.DatatablesLimitOffsetPagination
.