Can't decorate a method with @api_view

[ZeyadMoustafaKamal]

So I am trying to build something with django rest framework. and I decided to build the views in a class as methods and then decorate them with @api_view. but I am getting this error

AssertionError: The request argument must be an instance of django.http.HttpRequest, not rest_admin.base.AdminSite

and yes I am building a custom admin site.

here is the view

class Foo:
    @api_view()
    def index(self, request):
            return Response("Hello world")
    def get_urls(self):
        return [path(''), self.index, name='index], "rest_admin", "rest_admin"

and here is the URLs

foo = Foo()
urlpatterns = [
    path('admin', foo.get_urls())
]

after some investigations. I saw that it passes the request as the self parameter so that the problem happens. anyway to fix this except to make the views outside the class ?? and also if I used @staticmethod decorator is this fine or it might cause some problems in the future ??

[browniebroke]

Correct, this decorator only works with function, not class methods. If you really insist, you may try your luck with Django's method_decorator: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/ref/utils/#django.utils.decorators.method_decorator

Something along the lines of:

class Foo:
    @method_decorator(api_view())
    def index(self, request):
            return Response("Hello world")
    def get_urls(self):
        return [path(''), self.index, name='index], "rest_admin", "rest_admin"

I have not tested it with api_view, but this worked for me in other similar cases.

[ZeyadMoustafaKamal]

OMG. thanks a lot.