Is it possible to write a view for the endpoint 'auth/users/'?

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I’ve just tried writing a view for the endpoint ‘auth/users’, as I want something other than the generic Django API page that shows up for it.

It doesn’t appear to be writable, though? Although I wrote a view, template and a path linking the view to the url, it just leads to the generic API page.

I have spent a good amount of time searching around, but I can’t find much info on the topic.

All I want to know is whether it can be, or not.

Thanks in advance.

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Yes, you can override any url. Url definitions are searched in the order defined, so if you want to define a url overriding a system url, your app needs to be before the system app in INSTALLED_APPS.

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Hi Ken,

Thanks for your reply.

Do you mean that I should move the app ‘restaurant’ above those of Djoser and the Rest Framework in INSTALLED_APPS?

This is what I have at the moment. I thought it was standard practice to put apps after installed packages in INSTALLED_APPS?

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'rest_framework',
    'rest_framework.authtoken',
    'djoser',
    'restaurant',
]

I’ve just moved the custom view url pattern for ‘auth/users/’ above the include(‘djoser.urls’) and it works now.

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('', include('restaurant.urls')),
    path('', include(router.urls)),
    path('', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')),
    path('auth/users/', views.signup.as_view(), name='sign-up'),
    path('auth/', include('djoser.urls')),
    path('auth/', include('djoser.urls.authtoken')),
    path('api-token-auth/', obtain_auth_token),
]

Do I need to put my restaurant app above Djoser and Rest Framework in INSTALLED_APPS, then, or not?

Thanks again! :slight_smile:

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No, it is not. There are a couple of areas where the order of the entries in it is important, where that order defines some type of sequencing of internal operations. (Template search being another example.) It’s a requirement to order those entries in the order needed for your purposes. If you need your apps listed first, put them first. If you need some third-party apps first, put them first. So the ordering of entries is determined by need, not by some common convention.

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Thanks for the help, Ken.