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diff --git a/docs/howto/usingurllib2.rst b/docs/howto/usingurllib2.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 6320dc20..00000000 --- a/docs/howto/usingurllib2.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,39 +0,0 @@ -Using urllib2 with Django REST Framework -======================================== - -Python's standard library comes with some nice modules -you can use to test your api or even write a full client. - -Using the 'GET' method ----------------------- - -Here's an example which does a 'GET' on the `model-resource` example -in the sandbox.:: - - >>> import urllib2 - >>> r = urllib2.urlopen('htpp://rest.ep.io/model-resource-example') - >>> r.getcode() # Check if the response was ok - 200 - >>> print r.read() # Examin the response itself - [{"url": "http://rest.ep.io/model-resource-example/1/", "baz": "sdf", "foo": true, "bar": 123}] - -Using the 'POST' method ------------------------ - -And here's an example which does a 'POST' to create a new instance. First let's encode -the data we want to POST. We'll use `urllib` for encoding and the `time` module -to send the current time as as a string value for our POST.:: - - >>> import urllib, time - >>> d = urllib.urlencode((('bar', 123), ('baz', time.asctime()))) - -Now use the `Request` class and specify the 'Content-type':: - - >>> req = urllib2.Request('http://rest.ep.io/model-resource-example/', data=d, headers={'Content-Type':'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}) - >>> resp = urllib2.urlopen(req) - >>> resp.getcode() - 201 - >>> resp.read() - '{"url": "http://rest.ep.io/model-resource-example/4/", "baz": "Fri Dec 30 18:22:52 2011", "foo": false, "bar": 123}' - -That should get you started to write a client for your own api. |