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-rw-r--r--topics/release-notes.html5
3 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/api-guide/status-codes.html b/api-guide/status-codes.html
index 906b2f9e..6c6a6ff9 100644
--- a/api-guide/status-codes.html
+++ b/api-guide/status-codes.html
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@
<li><a href="#redirection---3xx">Redirection - 3xx</a></li>
<li><a href="#client-error---4xx">Client Error - 4xx</a></li>
<li><a href="#server-error---5xx">Server Error - 5xx</a></li>
+<li><a href="#helper-functions">Helper functions</a></li>
<div>
<hr>
@@ -220,6 +221,16 @@ def empty_view(self):
return Response(content, status=status.HTTP_404_NOT_FOUND)
</code></pre>
<p>The full set of HTTP status codes included in the <code>status</code> module is listed below.</p>
+<p>The module also includes a set of helper functions for testing if a status code is in a given range.</p>
+<pre class="prettyprint lang-py"><code>from rest_framework import status
+from rest_framework.test import APITestCase
+
+class ExampleTestCase(APITestCase):
+ def test_url_root(self):
+ url = reverse('index')
+ response = self.client.get(url)
+ self.assertTrue(status.is_success(response.status_code))
+</code></pre>
<p>For more information on proper usage of HTTP status codes see <a href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html">RFC 2616</a>
and <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6585">RFC 6585</a>.</p>
<h2 id="informational-1xx">Informational - 1xx</h2>
@@ -282,6 +293,14 @@ HTTP_504_GATEWAY_TIMEOUT
HTTP_505_HTTP_VERSION_NOT_SUPPORTED
HTTP_511_NETWORK_AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED
</code></pre>
+<h2 id="helper-functions">Helper functions</h2>
+<p>The following helper functions are available for identifying the category of the response code.</p>
+<pre class="prettyprint lang-py"><code>is_informational() # 1xx
+is_success() # 2xx
+is_redirect() # 3xx
+is_client_error() # 4xx
+is_server_error() # 5xx
+</code></pre>
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diff --git a/topics/credits.html b/topics/credits.html
index 1991f1e2..f22ce502 100644
--- a/topics/credits.html
+++ b/topics/credits.html
@@ -383,6 +383,7 @@
<li>Rob Hudson - <a href="https://github.com/robhudson">robhudson</a></li>
<li>Alex Good - <a href="https://github.com/alexjg">alexjg</a></li>
<li>Ian Foote - <a href="https://github.com/ian-foote">ian-foote</a></li>
+<li>Chuck Harmston - <a href="https://github.com/chuckharmston">chuckharmston</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Many thanks to everyone who's contributed to the project.</p>
<h2 id="additional-thanks">Additional thanks</h2>
diff --git a/topics/release-notes.html b/topics/release-notes.html
index 6c205ab2..74d4ba18 100644
--- a/topics/release-notes.html
+++ b/topics/release-notes.html
@@ -244,10 +244,13 @@
</code></pre>
<hr />
<h2 id="23x-series">2.3.x series</h2>
-<h3 id="master">Master</h3>
+<h3 id="2310">2.3.10</h3>
+<p><strong>Date</strong>: 6th December 2013</p>
<ul>
<li>Add in choices information for ChoiceFields in response to <code>OPTIONS</code> requests.</li>
<li>Added <code>pre_delete()</code> and <code>post_delete()</code> method hooks.</li>
+<li>Added status code category helper functions.</li>
+<li>Bugfix: Partial updates which erronously set a related field to <code>None</code> now correctly fail validation instead of raising an exception.</li>
<li>Bugfix: Responses without any content no longer include an HTTP <code>'Content-Type'</code> header.</li>
<li>Bugfix: Correctly handle validation errors in PUT-as-create case, responding with 400.</li>
</ul>