diff options
| author | Tom Christie | 2011-06-02 16:03:11 +0100 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Tom Christie | 2011-06-02 16:03:11 +0100 |
| commit | 3531b0b35540ade216299c46717dcf9fa24487c7 (patch) | |
| tree | 813755ed96aa7a0476a719b570635424119f0000 /docs/examples/views.rst | |
| parent | bf9ea978bca8928ba5726e4ec3d76e81d72aada8 (diff) | |
| download | django-rest-framework-3531b0b35540ade216299c46717dcf9fa24487c7.tar.bz2 | |
More updating docs for 0.2
--HG--
rename : docs/examples/modelresources.rst => docs/examples/modelviews.rst
rename : docs/examples/resources.rst => docs/examples/views.rst
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/examples/views.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/examples/views.rst | 58 |
1 files changed, 58 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/examples/views.rst b/docs/examples/views.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..59e13976 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/examples/views.rst @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +.. _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."]}} |
