Out of the box, DRF is not able to reverse view-names given the following routing:

In the project's urls.py:

urlpatterns = pattern(
    '',
    url(r'^(?P<slug>\w+)/api/app/', include('app.urls'))
)

in the app's urls.py:

router = routers.SimpleRouter()
router.register(r'items', views.ItemViewSet)

urlpatterns = pattern(
    '',
    url(r'^', include(router.urls)),
)

This will raise NoReverseMatch exceptions, because the get_url implementations of HyperlinkedIdentityField and HyperlinkedRelatedField ignore the slug captured parameter.

Currently, there's a hacky way to subclass the Hyperlinked*Field classes, and get at the view's kwargs via request.parser_context['kwargs'].

The captured parameters are available to the HyperlinkedModelSerializer through self.context['view'].kwargs, maybe it would be better if those kwargs were provided to the appropriate Hyperlinked*Field instances ?