How to have custom API response

[Emad-Eldin-G]

So it's been pretty easy to serialize a table and return its data as a JSON response using the REST framework.
However, I wish to return custom data not related to any table or database for specific endpoints in my Django application.
Any help on this would be very much appreciated 🙏🏼

[Azanul]

Do you mean something like this:

from rest_framework.views import APIView
from rest_framework.response import Response


class MyAPIView(APIView):
        def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
                return Response({"data": "Custom Data"}, status=200)

[Emad-Eldin-G]

yes exactly like this, can you elaborate on how its done

[Azanul]

I assuming you're already familiar with APIView.
def get defines the function to be run on a get request.
In Response (ref) mention the dictionary that'll be sent as the requested content type (Json, xml, etc) and in status the status code (200 for OK, 500 for Internal Server error, etc