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| author | Tom Christie | 2014-11-25 16:27:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Christie | 2014-11-25 16:27:00 +0000 |
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diff --git a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md index db7436c2..035ec1d2 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<a class="github" href="renderers.py"></a> +source: renderers.py # Renderers @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ The `jsonp` approach is essentially a browser hack, and is [only appropriate for ## YAMLRenderer -Renders the request data into `YAML`. +Renders the request data into `YAML`. Requires the `pyyaml` package to be installed. @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ Note that non-ascii characters will be rendered using `\uXXXX` character escape. ## UnicodeYAMLRenderer -Renders the request data into `YAML`. +Renders the request data into `YAML`. Requires the `pyyaml` package to be installed. @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ An example of a view that uses `TemplateHTMLRenderer`: def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs): self.object = self.get_object() return Response({'user': self.object}, template_name='user_detail.html') - + You can use `TemplateHTMLRenderer` either to return regular HTML pages using REST framework, or to return both HTML and API responses from a single endpoint. If you're building websites that use `TemplateHTMLRenderer` along with other renderer classes, you should consider listing `TemplateHTMLRenderer` as the first class in the `renderer_classes` list, so that it will be prioritised first even for browsers that send poorly formed `ACCEPT:` headers. @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ An example of a view that uses `TemplateHTMLRenderer`: @api_view(('GET',)) @renderer_classes((StaticHTMLRenderer,)) - def simple_html_view(request): + def simple_html_view(request): data = '<html><body><h1>Hello, world</h1></body></html>' return Response(data) @@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ The following is an example plaintext renderer that will return a response with class PlainTextRenderer(renderers.BaseRenderer): media_type = 'text/plain' format = 'txt' - + def render(self, data, media_type=None, renderer_context=None): return data.encode(self.charset) @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ You can do some pretty flexible things using REST framework's renderers. Some e * Provide either flat or nested representations from the same endpoint, depending on the requested media type. * Serve both regular HTML webpages, and JSON based API responses from the same endpoints. * Specify multiple types of HTML representation for API clients to use. -* Underspecify a renderer's media type, such as using `media_type = 'image/*'`, and use the `Accept` header to vary the encoding of the response. +* Underspecify a renderer's media type, such as using `media_type = 'image/*'`, and use the `Accept` header to vary the encoding of the response. ## Varying behaviour by media type |