Use URL output representation for FileField, not path representation.

[warchildmd]

Closes #1368.

The additional settings:

# rest framework configuration
REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    ...
    'PREPEND_MEDIA_URL': True
}

[tomchristie]

We shouldn't need to include MEDIA_URL in the REST_FRAMEWORK settings dictionary, as it is already available as a regular Django setting.

[pySilver]

Well I'm just using this version of a field and this works just fine:

class FileField(fields.FileField):
    def to_native(self, value):
        """
        Returns full url to a media file
        """
        try:
            return value.url
        except AttributeError:
            pass

        return super(FileField, self).to_native(value)

note you stil need to retrurn f.name since not saved files might not have url yet. And yes – one should use Storage for working with files.

[tomchristie]

Now resolved in master. See the incoming 3.0 release notes...

https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/blob/master/docs/topics/3.0-announcement.md#file-fields-as-urls