clean support for view namespaces in as serializer attribute

view name is prepended with namespace if existend

rest_framework/serializers.py

@@ -480,6 +480,7 @@ class HyperlinkedModelSerializer(ModelSerializer):
     """
     _options_class = HyperlinkedModelSerializerOptions
     _default_view_name = '%(model_name)s-detail'
+    _default_view_namespace =   None                    # default: no namespace is prepend to view_name
 
     url = HyperlinkedIdentityField()
 
@@ -497,7 +498,14 @@ class HyperlinkedModelSerializer(ModelSerializer):
             'app_label': model_meta.app_label,
             'model_name': model_meta.object_name.lower()
         }
-        return self._default_view_name % format_kwargs
+        view_name = self._default_view_name % format_kwargs
+        if self._default_view_namespace:
+            return "%(namespace)s:%(view)s" %  {
+                'view': view_name,
+                'namespace': self._default_view_namespace
+            }
+        else:
+            return view_name
 
     def get_pk_field(self, model_field):
         return None