UPDATE:
versioning is now properly supported.
There are some answers from your link:
We found it practical and useful to put the version in the URL. It
makes it easy to tell what you're using at a glance. We do alias /foo
to /foo/(latest versions) for ease of use, shorter / cleaner URLs,
etc, as the accepted answer suggests.
Keeping backwards compatibility forever is often cost-prohibitive and/or very difficult. We prefer to give advanced notice of
deprecation, redirects like suggested here, docs, and other
mechanisms.
So we took this approach, plus allowing clients to specify the version in request header (X-Version), here is how we did it:
Structure in side the API app:
.
├── __init__.py
├── middlewares.py
├── urls.py
├── v1
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── account
│ │ ├── __init__.py
│ │ ├── serializers.py
│ │ └── views.py
│ └── urls.py
└── v2
├── __init__.py
├── account
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── serializers.py
│ └── views.py
└── urls.py
project urls.py:
url(r'^api/', include('project.api.urls', namespace='api')),
api app level urls.py:
from django.conf.urls import *
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'', include('project.api.v2.urls', namespace='default')),
url(r'^v1/', include('project.api.v1.urls', namespace='v1')),
)
version level urls.py
from django.conf.urls import *
from .account import views as account_views
from rest_framework.routers import DefaultRouter
router = DefaultRouter()
router.register('account', account_views.AccountView)
router.register('myaccount', account_views.MyAccountView)
urlpatterns = router.urls
create a middleware to switch to the correct code by changing the path_info, please note there is a caveat that namespace ('api') defined in project level urls is not flexible and needs to be known in middleware:
from django.core.urlresolvers import resolve
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
class VersionSwitch(object):
def process_request(self, request):
r = resolve(request.path_info)
version = request.META.get('HTTP_X_VERSION', False)
if r.namespace.startswith('api:') and version:
old_version = r.namespace.split(':')[-1]
request.path_info = reverse('{}:{}'.format(r.namespace.replace(old_version, version), r.url_name), args=r.args, kwargs=r.kwargs)
Sample url:
curl -H "X-Version: v1" http://your.domain:8000/api/myaccount/
