Django-rest-framework: Disable filtering in browsable api

Created on 21 Dec 2015 · 3Comments · Source: encode/django-rest-framework

Filtering in my browsable api leaks information of my customers, therefore I would like to disable it, like I have done with the forms in the browsable API.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Source

gabn88

Most helpful comment

Anyone looking for how to do this today, you can override the to_html method and register your custom filter backend instead of the DRF one.

``` python.py
class DisabledHTMLFilterBackend(filters.DjangoFilterBackend):

def to_html(self, request, queryset, view):
    return ""

```

All 3 comments

I'm new to the code, could you post some example code?

atombrella on 10 Jan 2016

Anyone looking for how to do this today, you can override the to_html method and register your custom filter backend instead of the DRF one.

``` python.py
class DisabledHTMLFilterBackend(filters.DjangoFilterBackend):

def to_html(self, request, queryset, view):
    return ""

```

See also: issue #3905

poswald on 4 Mar 2016

👍2

Thank you!

This is how it looks now for me (note the latter two are commented):

'DEFAULT_FILTER_BACKENDS': (
    'framework.api.filters.DisabledHTMLFilterBackend',
    'framework.api.filters.DjangoObjectPermissionsFilter',
    #'rest_framework_filters.backends.DjangoFilterBackend', # not used! 
    #'rest_framework.filters.DjangoFilterBackend',

gabn88 on 4 Mar 2016

👍1

Was this page helpful?

0 / 5 - 0 ratings