Creating Intercooler-friendly custom endpoints in a Django Rest Framework viewset.

api_views.py

class IntercoolerContentNegotiation(DefaultContentNegotiation):
    """
    Used to automatically select StaticHTMLRenderer for Intercooler requests
    """
    def select_renderer(self, request, renderers, format_suffix):
        if request.DATA.get('ic-request', False):
            return StaticHTMLRenderer(), 'text/html'
        else:
            return super(IntercoolerContentNegotiation, self).select_renderer(request, renderers, format_suffix)


class ExampleViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):

    content_negotiation_class = IntercoolerContentNegotiation

    @action()
    def do_something(self, request, pk=None):
        return Response('Done Something')

    @action()
    def do_something_else(self, request, pk=None):
        return Response('Done Something Else')