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+.. _views:
+
+Getting Started - Views
+-----------------------
+
+.. note::
+
+ A live sandbox instance of this API is available:
+
+ http://api.django-rest-framework.org/resource-example/
+
+ You can browse the API using a web browser, or from the command line::
+
+ curl -X GET http://api.django-rest-framework.org/resource-example/ -H 'Accept: text/plain'
+
+We're going to start off with a simple example, that demonstrates a few things:
+
+#. Creating views.
+#. Linking views.
+#. Writing method handlers on views.
+#. Adding form validation to views.
+
+First we'll define two views in our urlconf.
+
+``urls.py``
+
+.. include:: ../../examples/resourceexample/urls.py
+ :literal:
+
+Now we'll add a form that we'll use for input validation. This is completely optional, but it's often useful.
+
+``forms.py``
+
+.. include:: ../../examples/resourceexample/forms.py
+ :literal:
+
+Now we'll write our views. The first is a read only view that links to three instances of the second. The second view just has some stub handler methods to help us see that our example is working.
+
+``views.py``
+
+.. include:: ../../examples/resourceexample/views.py
+ :literal:
+
+That's us done. Our API now provides both programmatic access using JSON and XML, as well a nice browseable HTML view, so we can now access it both from the browser:
+
+* http://api.django-rest-framework.org/resource-example/
+
+And from the command line:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ # Demonstrates API's input validation using form input
+ bash: curl -X POST --data 'foo=true' http://api.django-rest-framework.org/resource-example/1/
+ {"detail": {"bar": ["This field is required."], "baz": ["This field is required."]}}
+
+ # Demonstrates API's input validation using JSON input
+ bash: curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-binary '{"foo":true}' http://api.django-rest-framework.org/resource-example/1/
+ {"detail": {"bar": ["This field is required."], "baz": ["This field is required."]}}