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-rw-r--r--docs/api-guide/renderers.md9
-rw-r--r--docs/api-guide/status-codes.md21
-rw-r--r--docs/api-guide/views.md4
-rw-r--r--docs/api-guide/viewsets.md2
4 files changed, 32 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md
index f30fa26a..cf200569 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md
@@ -118,7 +118,13 @@ Renders the request data into `JSONP`. The `JSONP` media type provides a mechan
The javascript callback function must be set by the client including a `callback` URL query parameter. For example `http://example.com/api/users?callback=jsonpCallback`. If the callback function is not explicitly set by the client it will default to `'callback'`.
-**Note**: If you require cross-domain AJAX requests, you may want to consider using the more modern approach of [CORS][cors] as an alternative to `JSONP`. See the [CORS documentation][cors-docs] for more details.
+---
+
+**Warning**: If you require cross-domain AJAX requests, you should almost certainly be using the more modern approach of [CORS][cors] as an alternative to `JSONP`. See the [CORS documentation][cors-docs] for more details.
+
+The `jsonp` approach is essentially a browser hack, and is [only appropriate for globally readable API endpoints][jsonp-security], where `GET` requests are unauthenticated and do not require any user permissions.
+
+---
**.media_type**: `application/javascript`
@@ -419,6 +425,7 @@ Comma-separated values are a plain-text tabular data format, that can be easily
[rfc4627]: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt
[cors]: http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/
[cors-docs]: ../topics/ajax-csrf-cors.md
+[jsonp-security]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/613962/is-jsonp-safe-to-use
[testing]: testing.md
[HATEOAS]: http://timelessrepo.com/haters-gonna-hateoas
[quote]: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven
diff --git a/docs/api-guide/status-codes.md b/docs/api-guide/status-codes.md
index 409f659b..64c46434 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/status-codes.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/status-codes.md
@@ -17,6 +17,18 @@ Using bare status codes in your responses isn't recommended. REST framework inc
The full set of HTTP status codes included in the `status` module is listed below.
+The module also includes a set of helper functions for testing if a status code is in a given range.
+
+ 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))
+
+
For more information on proper usage of HTTP status codes see [RFC 2616][rfc2616]
and [RFC 6585][rfc6585].
@@ -90,6 +102,15 @@ Response status codes beginning with the digit "5" indicate cases in which the s
HTTP_505_HTTP_VERSION_NOT_SUPPORTED
HTTP_511_NETWORK_AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED
+## Helper functions
+
+The following helper functions are available for identifying the category of the response code.
+
+ is_informational() # 1xx
+ is_success() # 2xx
+ is_redirect() # 3xx
+ is_client_error() # 4xx
+ is_server_error() # 5xx
[rfc2324]: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt
[rfc2616]: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
diff --git a/docs/api-guide/views.md b/docs/api-guide/views.md
index 15581e09..194a7a6b 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/views.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/views.md
@@ -168,5 +168,5 @@ Each of these decorators takes a single argument which must be a list or tuple o
[cite]: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2011/08/24/class-based-views-usage.html
[cite2]: http://www.boredomandlaziness.org/2012/05/djangos-cbvs-are-not-mistake-but.html
-[settings]: api-guide/settings.md
-[throttling]: api-guide/throttling.md
+[settings]: settings.md
+[throttling]: throttling.md
diff --git a/docs/api-guide/viewsets.md b/docs/api-guide/viewsets.md
index 1062cb32..4fdd9364 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/viewsets.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/viewsets.md
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ The actions provided by the `ModelViewSet` class are `.list()`, `.retrieve()`,
#### Example
-Because `ModelViewSet` extends `GenericAPIView`, you'll normally need to provide at least the `queryset` and `serializer_class` attributes. For example:
+Because `ModelViewSet` extends `GenericAPIView`, you'll normally need to provide at least the `queryset` and `serializer_class` attributes, or the `model` attribute shortcut. For example:
class AccountViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
"""