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| author | Tom Christie | 2013-06-21 22:42:04 +0100 | 
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| committer | Tom Christie | 2013-06-21 22:42:04 +0100 | 
| commit | 8cc63b09f6065e0197e060cc4d62b560196c8877 (patch) | |
| tree | 3b8827f179369dbe07cd29a0ba4897328ee7d922 /docs/api-guide/responses.md | |
| parent | 4f7f93e20ef53fbc0b66766158bca75ebddce2ed (diff) | |
| download | django-rest-framework-8cc63b09f6065e0197e060cc4d62b560196c8877.tar.bz2 | |
Add support for StreamingHttpResponse.  Closes #939
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| diff --git a/docs/api-guide/responses.md b/docs/api-guide/responses.md index f83b8194..399b7c23 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/responses.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/responses.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ REST framework supports HTTP content negotiation by providing a `Response` class  The `Response` class subclasses Django's `SimpleTemplateResponse`.  `Response` objects are initialised with data, which should consist of native Python primitives.  REST framework then uses standard HTTP content negotiation to determine how it should render the final response content. -There's no requirement for you to use the `Response` class, you can also return regular `HttpResponse` objects from your views if you want, but it provides a nicer interface for returning Web API responses. +There's no requirement for you to use the `Response` class, you can also return regular `HttpResponse` or `StreamingHttpResponse` objects from your views if required.  Using the `Response` class simply provides a nicer interface for returning content-negotiated Web API responses, that can be rendered to multiple formats.  Unless you want to heavily customize REST framework for some reason, you should always use an `APIView` class or `@api_view` function for views that return `Response` objects.  Doing so ensures that the view can perform content negotiation and select the appropriate renderer for the response, before it is returned from the view. | 
