Moved Hyperlink class to utils.py

Author: jsenecal

rest_framework_json_api/utils.py

@@ -395,3 +395,21 @@ def extract_included(fields, resource, resource_instance):
                 )
 
     return format_keys(included_data)
+
+
+class Hyperlink(six.text_type):
+    """
+    A string like object that additionally has an associated name.
+    We use this for hyperlinked URLs that may render as a named link
+    in some contexts, or render as a plain URL in others.
+
+    Comes from Django REST framework 3.2
+    https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework
+    """
+
+    def __new__(self, url, name):
+        ret = six.text_type.__new__(self, url)
+        ret.name = name
+        return ret
+
+    is_hyperlink = True

rest_framework_json_api/views.py

@@ -3,15 +3,14 @@
 from django.db.models import Model
 from django.db.models.query import QuerySet
 from django.db.models.manager import Manager
-from django.utils import six
 from rest_framework import generics
 from rest_framework.response import Response
 from rest_framework.exceptions import NotFound, MethodNotAllowed
 from rest_framework.reverse import reverse
 
 from rest_framework_json_api.exceptions import Conflict
 from rest_framework_json_api.serializers import ResourceIdentifierObjectSerializer
-from rest_framework_json_api.utils import format_relation_name, get_resource_type_from_instance, OrderedDict
+from rest_framework_json_api.utils import format_relation_name, get_resource_type_from_instance, OrderedDict, Hyperlink
 
 
 class RelationshipView(generics.GenericAPIView):
@@ -34,23 +33,6 @@ def get_url(self, name, view_name, kwargs, request):
         attributes are not configured to correctly match the URL conf.
         """
 
-        class Hyperlink(six.text_type):
-            """
-            A string like object that additionally has an associated name.
-            We use this for hyperlinked URLs that may render as a named link
-            in some contexts, or render as a plain URL in others.
-
-            Comes from Django REST framework 3.2
-            https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework
-            """
-
-            def __new__(self, url, name):
-                ret = six.text_type.__new__(self, url)
-                ret.name = name
-                return ret
-
-            is_hyperlink = True
-
         # Return None if the view name is not supplied
         if not view_name:
             return None