How to: Integrate with Rest Framework

In case of generic views override the get_queryset method:

from rest_framework import generics

from .models import Continent
from .serializers import ContinentSerializer


class ContinentListView(generics.ListAPIView):
    queryset = Continent.objects.all()
    serializer_class = ContinentSerializer

    def get_queryset(self):
        queryset = super(ContinentListView, self).get_queryset()
        return queryset.translate_related(
            'countries',
            'countries__cities',
        ).translate()


class ContinentView(generics.RetrieveAPIView):
    queryset = Continent.objects.all()
    serializer_class = ContinentSerializer

    def get_queryset(self):
        queryset = super(ContinentView, self).get_queryset()
        return queryset.translate_related(
            'countries',
            'countries__cities',
        ).translate()

Also in case of viewsets override the get_queryset method:

from rest_framework import viewsets

from .models import Continent
from .serializers import ContinentSerializer


class ContinentViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    queryset = Continent.objects.all()
    serializer_class = ContinentSerializer

    def get_queryset(self):
        queryset = super(ContinentViewSet, self).get_queryset()
        return queryset.translate_related(
            'countries',
            'countries__cities',
        ).translate()

In case of a custom view use the extended queryset capabilities.

Note

Note that the translate method in the examples above is not receiving a language code. This means it will use the active language code automatically, which is a good practice to keep up in the views.