GeoDjango Tools for Django REST Framework

Author: Mjumbe Wawatu Poe, Follow me on Twitter.

If you want to render your model as a GeoJSON Feature, use the renderer.

views.py:

from rest_framework.views import APIView
from rest_framework.settings import api_settings
from rest_framework_gis.renderers import GeoJSONRenderer
from rest_framework_gis.parsers import GeoJSONParser

class MyView (APIView):
    renderer_classes = (GeoJSONRenderer, ) + api_settings.DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES
    parser_classes = (GeoJSONParser, ) + api_settings.DEFAULT_PARSER_CLASSES
    ...

In your serializers, use the serializers.GeometryField for your geometry fields (or use the serializers.GeometryModelSerializer, which will use the GeometryField automatically). The GeoJSONRenderer will render geometry fields as GeoJSON geometries.

Also available is the FeatureRenderer, which will render a collection of models with geometries as a GeoJSON feature collection. This renderer assumes a field named 'geometry'. To use a different field name, override the value of the geometry_field_name attribute the renderer or the view.

For more information about using renderers with Django REST Framework, see the API Guide or the Tutorial.

To run the tests against the current environment:

./manage.py test