class ViewSetMixin

    @classonlymethod
    def as_view(cls, actions=None, **initkwargs):
        """
        Because of the way class based views create a closure around the
        instantiated view, we need to totally reimplement `.as_view`,
        and slightly modify the view function that is created and returned.
        """
        # The suffix initkwarg is reserved for identifying the viewset type
        # eg. 'List' or 'Instance'.
        cls.suffix = None

        # actions must not be empty
        if not actions:
            raise TypeError("The `actions` argument must be provided when "
                            "calling `.as_view()` on a ViewSet. For example "
                            "`.as_view({'get': 'list'})`")

        # sanitize keyword arguments
        for key in initkwargs:
            if key in cls.http_method_names:
                raise TypeError("You tried to pass in the %s method name as a "
                                "keyword argument to %s(). Don't do that."
                                % (key, cls.__name__))
            if not hasattr(cls, key):
                raise TypeError("%s() received an invalid keyword %r" % (
                    cls.__name__, key))

        def view(request, *args, **kwargs):
            self = cls(**initkwargs)
            # We also store the mapping of request methods to actions,
            # so that we can later set the action attribute.
            # eg. `self.action = 'list'` on an incoming GET request.
            self.action_map = actions

            # Bind methods to actions
            # This is the bit that's different to a standard view
            for method, action in actions.items():
                handler = getattr(self, action)
                setattr(self, method, handler)

            # And continue as usual
            return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)

        # take name and docstring from class
        update_wrapper(view, cls, updated=())

        # and possible attributes set by decorators
        # like csrf_exempt from dispatch
        update_wrapper(view, cls.dispatch, assigned=())

        # We need to set these on the view function, so that breadcrumb
        # generation can pick out these bits of information from a
        # resolved URL.
        view.cls = cls
        view.initkwargs = initkwargs
        view.suffix = initkwargs.get('suffix', None)
        view.actions = actions
        return csrf_exempt(view)

    def initialize_request(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        """
        Set the `.action` attribute on the view,
        depending on the request method.
        """
        request = super(ViewSetMixin, self).initialize_request(request, *args, **kwargs)
        method = request.method.lower()
        if method == 'options':
            # This is a special case as we always provide handling for the
            # options method in the base `View` class.
            # Unlike the other explicitly defined actions, 'metadata' is implicit.
            self.action = 'metadata'
        else:
            self.action = self.action_map.get(method)
        return request