django-rest-framework limit the allowed_methods to GET

Question

I Have just started with django-rest-framework. Pretty enthousiastic about it, except for the fact there are very little examples available. getting the api working is going great, but all the extra's is a puzzle. (adding extra custom fields etc.)

Now I wonder how you can restrict the allowed_methods in for example a ListView or a DetailView. Adding this to the class in the views.py like I read somewhere as an answer... does not seem to have any effect:

allowed_methods = ('GET',)

Answer 1

If you are using ModelViewSet and still want to restrict some methods you can add http_method_names.

Example:

class SomeModelViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    queryset = SomeModel.objects.all()
    serializer_class = SomeModelSerializer
    http_method_names = ['get', 'post', 'head']

Once you do this, get, post and head will be allowed. But put, patch and delete will not be allowed.