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- <li class="main"><a href="#tutorial-3-class-based-views">Tutorial 3: Class Based Views</a></li>
-<li><a href="#rewriting-our-api-using-class-based-views">Rewriting our API using class based views</a></li>
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- <h1 id="tutorial-3-class-based-views">Tutorial 3: Class Based Views</h1>
-<p>We can also write our API views using class based views, rather than function based views. As we'll see this is a powerful pattern that allows us to reuse common functionality, and helps us keep our code <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_repeat_yourself">DRY</a>.</p>
-<h2 id="rewriting-our-api-using-class-based-views">Rewriting our API using class based views</h2>
-<p>We'll start by rewriting the root view as a class based view. All this involves is a little bit of refactoring of <code>views.py</code>.</p>
-<pre class="prettyprint lang-py"><code>from snippets.models import Snippet
-from snippets.serializers import SnippetSerializer
-from django.http import Http404
-from rest_framework.views import APIView
-from rest_framework.response import Response
-from rest_framework import status
-
-
-class SnippetList(APIView):
- """
- List all snippets, or create a new snippet.
- """
- def get(self, request, format=None):
- snippets = Snippet.objects.all()
- serializer = SnippetSerializer(snippets, many=True)
- return Response(serializer.data)
-
- def post(self, request, format=None):
- serializer = SnippetSerializer(data=request.DATA)
- if serializer.is_valid():
- serializer.save()
- return Response(serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
- return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)
-</code></pre>
-<p>So far, so good. It looks pretty similar to the previous case, but we've got better separation between the different HTTP methods. We'll also need to update the instance view in <code>views.py</code>.</p>
-<pre class="prettyprint lang-py"><code>class SnippetDetail(APIView):
- """
- Retrieve, update or delete a snippet instance.
- """
- def get_object(self, pk):
- try:
- return Snippet.objects.get(pk=pk)
- except Snippet.DoesNotExist:
- raise Http404
-
- def get(self, request, pk, format=None):
- snippet = self.get_object(pk)
- serializer = SnippetSerializer(snippet)
- return Response(serializer.data)
-
- def put(self, request, pk, format=None):
- snippet = self.get_object(pk)
- serializer = SnippetSerializer(snippet, data=request.DATA)
- if serializer.is_valid():
- serializer.save()
- return Response(serializer.data)
- return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)
-
- def delete(self, request, pk, format=None):
- snippet = self.get_object(pk)
- snippet.delete()
- return Response(status=status.HTTP_204_NO_CONTENT)
-</code></pre>
-<p>That's looking good. Again, it's still pretty similar to the function based view right now.</p>
-<p>We'll also need to refactor our <code>urls.py</code> slightly now we're using class based views.</p>
-<pre class="prettyprint lang-py"><code>from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
-from rest_framework.urlpatterns import format_suffix_patterns
-from snippets import views
-
-urlpatterns = [
- url(r'^snippets/$', views.SnippetList.as_view()),
- url(r'^snippets/(?P&lt;pk&gt;[0-9]+)/$', views.SnippetDetail.as_view()),
-]
-
-urlpatterns = format_suffix_patterns(urlpatterns)
-</code></pre>
-<p>Okay, we're done. If you run the development server everything should be working just as before.</p>
-<h2 id="using-mixins">Using mixins</h2>
-<p>One of the big wins of using class based views is that it allows us to easily compose reusable bits of behaviour.</p>
-<p>The create/retrieve/update/delete operations that we've been using so far are going to be pretty similar for any model-backed API views we create. Those bits of common behaviour are implemented in REST framework's mixin classes.</p>
-<p>Let's take a look at how we can compose the views by using the mixin classes. Here's our <code>views.py</code> module again.</p>
-<pre class="prettyprint lang-py"><code>from snippets.models import Snippet
-from snippets.serializers import SnippetSerializer
-from rest_framework import mixins
-from rest_framework import generics
-
-class SnippetList(mixins.ListModelMixin,
- mixins.CreateModelMixin,
- generics.GenericAPIView):
- queryset = Snippet.objects.all()
- serializer_class = SnippetSerializer
-
- def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
- return self.list(request, *args, **kwargs)
-
- def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
- return self.create(request, *args, **kwargs)
-</code></pre>
-<p>We'll take a moment to examine exactly what's happening here. We're building our view using <code>GenericAPIView</code>, and adding in <code>ListModelMixin</code> and <code>CreateModelMixin</code>.</p>
-<p>The base class provides the core functionality, and the mixin classes provide the <code>.list()</code> and <code>.create()</code> actions. We're then explicitly binding the <code>get</code> and <code>post</code> methods to the appropriate actions. Simple enough stuff so far.</p>
-<pre class="prettyprint lang-py"><code>class SnippetDetail(mixins.RetrieveModelMixin,
- mixins.UpdateModelMixin,
- mixins.DestroyModelMixin,
- generics.GenericAPIView):
- queryset = Snippet.objects.all()
- serializer_class = SnippetSerializer
-
- def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
- return self.retrieve(request, *args, **kwargs)
-
- def put(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
- return self.update(request, *args, **kwargs)
-
- def delete(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
- return self.destroy(request, *args, **kwargs)
-</code></pre>
-<p>Pretty similar. Again we're using the <code>GenericAPIView</code> class to provide the core functionality, and adding in mixins to provide the <code>.retrieve()</code>, <code>.update()</code> and <code>.destroy()</code> actions.</p>
-<h2 id="using-generic-class-based-views">Using generic class based views</h2>
-<p>Using the mixin classes we've rewritten the views to use slightly less code than before, but we can go one step further. REST framework provides a set of already mixed-in generic views that we can use to trim down our <code>views.py</code> module even more.</p>
-<pre class="prettyprint lang-py"><code>from snippets.models import Snippet
-from snippets.serializers import SnippetSerializer
-from rest_framework import generics
-
-
-class SnippetList(generics.ListCreateAPIView):
- queryset = Snippet.objects.all()
- serializer_class = SnippetSerializer
-
-
-class SnippetDetail(generics.RetrieveUpdateDestroyAPIView):
- queryset = Snippet.objects.all()
- serializer_class = SnippetSerializer
-</code></pre>
-<p>Wow, that's pretty concise. We've gotten a huge amount for free, and our code looks like good, clean, idiomatic Django.</p>
-<p>Next we'll move onto <a href="4-authentication-and-permissions">part 4 of the tutorial</a>, where we'll take a look at how we can deal with authentication and permissions for our API.</p>
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