Django REST framework, get object from URL
django-rest-framework
Solution
I suspect your best bet would be to manually keep a map of models to url patterns — not too dissimilar from a `URLConf`.
If that doesn't rock your boat you could pass the path into `resolve`.
This will give you a `ResolverMatch` upon which you'll find the `func` that was returned by the `as_view` call when you set up your URLs.
The `__name__` attribute of your view function will be that of your original view class. Do something like `globals()[class_name]` to get the class itself.
From there access the `model` attribute.
I hope that helps. As I say, you might just want to map models to URLs yourself.
Problem
I'm wondering if there is a clean way to retrieve an object from its URL with django rest framework. Surely there should be, as it seems to be what's happening when using `HyperlinkedRelatedField`. For instance, I have this URL `/api/comment/26` as a string. From my view, how can I get the comment instance with `pk=26`? Of course I could redo the work and work on the string but it must be a better way? Thanks a lot. EDIT: This is how I solved it at the end: `resolve('/api/comment/26/').func.cls.model` will return my model Comment. `resolve('/api/category/1/').kwargs['pk']` will return the pk. Which gives you: ``` from django.core.urlresolvers import resolve resolved_func, unused_args, resolved_kwargs = resolve('/api/category/1/') resolved_func.cls.model.objects.get(pk=resolved_kwargs['pk']) ```