[Fixed]-Django Rest Swagger APIView

Consider using the GenericAPIView instead as this will generate the documentation. It is a bit of a hack using this when the endpoint does not relate to a model, but it does work.

As an example, the following code will create an endpoint that only accepts post requests and is documented within swagger using the seralizer.

from rest_framework.generics import GenericAPIView

class SomeThing(GenericAPIView):
    serializer_class = MySerializer

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        serializer = MySerializer(data=request.data)
        if serializer.is_valid() is False:
            return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)

        res = do_magic(**serializer.data)
        return Response(res)

The get_swagger_view() method does not give you the control to add parameters and descriptions to the urls in your app

The solution for this is to use explicit schema definition. You can create a Document which is a representation of the Core API schema container. Go through the following link. Read the Core API section

Core API schema generator

This will require you to create a schema for the urls and the parameters that are used in your Application.

Create a file for swagger

swagger.py

from rest_framework.decorators import renderer_classes, api_view
from rest_framework_swagger.renderers import OpenAPIRenderer, SwaggerUIRenderer
import coreapi
from rest_framework import response
# noinspection PyArgumentList
@api_view()
@renderer_classes([SwaggerUIRenderer, OpenAPIRenderer])
def schema_view(request):
    print("---inside schema view-----")
    # noinspection PyArgumentList
    schema = coreapi.Document(
    title='Your Title',
    url='Your host url',
    content={
        'search': coreapi.Link(
            url='/search/',
            action='get',
            fields=[
                coreapi.Field(
                    name='from',
                    required=True,
                    location='query',
                    description='City name or airport code.'
                ),
                coreapi.Field(
                    name='to',
                    required=True,
                    location='query',
                    description='City name or airport code.'
                ),
                coreapi.Field(
                    name='date',
                    required=True,
                    location='query',
                    description='Flight date in "YYYY-MM-DD" format.'
                )
            ],
            description='Return flight availability and prices.'
        )
    }
)
    # schema = generator.get_schema(request)
    return response.Response(schema)

For explanation on coreapi.Document, coreapi.Field, coreapi.Link kindly refer to the above mentioned link.

Create the url for the swagger docs:

urls.py

url('^docs', swagger.schema_view)