Django-Rest-Framework CreateAPIView not working

Question

I am trying to implement a simple viewset from django-rest-framework, everything is working OK except for the Create view. The ulr (http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/create/) is loaded with the form to input data but when I hit PUT the data is not loaded in database. Terminal shows the following error: [19/Jun/2019 14:15:29] "GET /api/create/ HTTP/1.1" 404 10318 Not Found: /api/create/

I am following this tutorial to learn to integrate django and react. I've previously tried to implement CRUD views separately but got a circular reference error. I suppose there must be some sort of error with url definitions but I just can't figure out what is wrong.

API urls.py:

from articles.api.views import ArticleViewSet
from rest_framework.routers import DefaultRouter

router = DefaultRouter()
router.register(r'', ArticleViewSet, base_name='articles')
urlpatterns = router.urls

API views.py:

from rest_framework import viewsets
from articles.models import Article
from .serializers import ArticleSerializer

class ArticleViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    serializer_class = ArticleSerializer
    queryset = Article.objects.all()

API serializer:

from rest_framework import serializers
from articles.models import Article

class ArticleSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Article
        fields = ('id', 'title', 'content')

Project urls.py:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include

urlpatterns = [

    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls')),
    path('api/', include('articles.api.urls')),

]

With this code, when I access the List view the form to add a new record appears below and if I enter data there the record is added to database. But when I go to 'api/create' and submit the form it is not loaded in database. Update and Delete views are working fine.
Thanks for your help!

user_4685525 · Answer

If you are create an object, just POST to /api/ URL. Not /api/create/. This is because your ArticleViewSet contains CreateAPIView. If you are using like this:

from rest_framework import generics
class ArticleViewSet(generics.CreateAPIView):
    serializer_class = ArticleSerializer
    queryset = Article.objects.all()

Your routers in urls.py does not working if you use CreateAPIView. Your tutorial explains this.

You need to do send POST data /api/ URL for object creation.

POST method for create
PUT method for edit
GET method for list or detail
DELETE for delete

operations in viewsets.

If you want to use CreateAPIView(like the above code) you must change urls.py like this.

urlpatterns = [
    url("/api/create/", views.ArticleViewSet.as_view())
]

Django-Rest-Framework CreateAPIView not working

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