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diff --git a/docs/api-guide/responses.md b/docs/api-guide/responses.md index 374276dc..f83b8194 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/responses.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/responses.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ REST framework supports HTTP content negotiation by providing a `Response` class which allows you to return content that can be rendered into multiple content types, depending on the client request. -The `Response` class subclasses Django's `SimpleTemplateResponse`. `Response` objects are initialised with data, which should consist of native python primatives. REST framework then uses standard HTTP content negotiation to determine how it should render the final response content. +The `Response` class subclasses Django's `SimpleTemplateResponse`. `Response` objects are initialised with data, which should consist of native Python primitives. REST framework then uses standard HTTP content negotiation to determine how it should render the final response content. There's no requirement for you to use the `Response` class, you can also return regular `HttpResponse` objects from your views if you want, but it provides a nicer interface for returning Web API responses. @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Unless you want to heavily customize REST framework for some reason, you should **Signature:** `Response(data, status=None, template_name=None, headers=None, content_type=None)` -Unlike regular `HttpResponse` objects, you do not instantiate `Response` objects with rendered content. Instead you pass in unrendered data, which may consist of any python primatives. +Unlike regular `HttpResponse` objects, you do not instantiate `Response` objects with rendered content. Instead you pass in unrendered data, which may consist of any Python primitives. The renderers used by the `Response` class cannot natively handle complex datatypes such as Django model instances, so you need to serialize the data into primative datatypes before creating the `Response` object. |