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authorTom Christie2012-10-13 15:34:38 +0100
committerTom Christie2012-10-13 15:34:38 +0100
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-# Working with the Browsable API
+# The Browsable API
API may stand for Application *Programming* Interface, but humans have to be able to read the APIs, too; someone has to do the programming. Django REST Framework supports generating human-friendly HTML output for each resource when the `HTML` format is requested. These pages allow for easy browsing of resources, as well as forms for submitting data to the resources using `POST`, `PUT`, and `DELETE`.
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# 2.0 Migration Guide
+> Move fast and break things
+>
+> — Mark Zuckerberg, [the Hacker Way][cite].
+
REST framework 2.0 introduces a radical redesign of the core components, and a large number of backwards breaking changes.
### Serialization redesign.
@@ -21,7 +25,7 @@ REST framework 2.0's request-response cycle is now much less complex.
* Responses inherit from `SimpleTemplateResponse`, allowing rendering to be delegated to the response, not handled by the view.
* Requests extend the regular `HttpRequest`, allowing authentication and parsing to be delegated to the request, not handled by the view.
-### Renamed attribnutes & classes.
+### Renamed attributes & classes.
Various attributes and classes have been renamed in order to fit in better with Django's conventions.
@@ -82,4 +86,4 @@ Let's start to re-write this for REST framework 2.0.
model = Comment
fields = ('username', 'comment', 'created', 'rating', 'url', 'blogpost')
-
+[cite]: http://www.wired.com/business/2012/02/zuck-letter/