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Django RESTful Web Services

You're reading from   Django RESTful Web Services The easiest way to build Python RESTful APIs and web services with Django

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788833929
Length 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
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Preface 1. Installing the Required Software and Tools 2. Working with Models, Migrations, Serialization, and Deserialization FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating API Views 4. Using Generalized Behavior from the APIView Class 5. Understanding and Customizing the Browsable API Feature 6. Working with Advanced Relationships and Serialization 7. Using Constraints, Filtering, Searching, Ordering, and Pagination 8. Securing the API with Authentication and Permissions 9. Applying Throttling Rules and Versioning Management 10. Automating Tests 11. Solutions 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using decorators to enable different parsers and renderers


We will make changes to just one file. After you save the changes, Django's development server will automatically restart. However, you can decide to stop Django's development server and start it again after you finish all the necessary changes.

We will make the necessary changes to use the previously introduced @api_view decorator to make it possible for the RESTful Web Service to work with different parsers and renderers, by taking advantage of generalized behaviors provided by the APIView class.

Now, go to the restful01/toys folder and open the views.py file. Replace the code in this file with the following lines. However, take into account that many lines have been removed, such as the lines that declared the JSONResponse class. The code file for the sample is included in the hillar_django_restful_04_02 folder, in the restful01/toys/views.py file:

from django.shortcuts import render 
from rest_framework import status 
from toys...
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