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diff --git a/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md b/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md index f377c712..49e96d03 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md @@ -127,31 +127,64 @@ Go ahead and test the API from the command line, as we did in [tutorial part 1][ We can get a list of all of the snippets, as before. - curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/ - - [{"id": 1, "title": "", "code": "foo = \"bar\"\n", "linenos": false, "language": "python", "style": "friendly"}, {"id": 2, "title": "", "code": "print \"hello, world\"\n", "linenos": false, "language": "python", "style": "friendly"}] + http http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/ + + HTTP/1.1 200 OK + ... + [ + { + "id": 1, + "title": "", + "code": "foo = \"bar\"\n", + "linenos": false, + "language": "python", + "style": "friendly" + }, + { + "id": 2, + "title": "", + "code": "print \"hello, world\"\n", + "linenos": false, + "language": "python", + "style": "friendly" + } + ] We can control the format of the response that we get back, either by using the `Accept` header: - curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/ -H 'Accept: application/json' # Request JSON - curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/ -H 'Accept: text/html' # Request HTML + http http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/ Accept:application/json # Request JSON + http http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/ Accept:text/html # Request HTML Or by appending a format suffix: - curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/.json # JSON suffix - curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/.api # Browsable API suffix + http http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/.json # JSON suffix + http http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/.api # Browsable API suffix Similarly, we can control the format of the request that we send, using the `Content-Type` header. # POST using form data - curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/ -d "code=print 123" + http --form POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/ code="print 123" - {"id": 3, "title": "", "code": "print 123", "linenos": false, "language": "python", "style": "friendly"} + { + "id": 3, + "title": "", + "code": "print 123", + "linenos": false, + "language": "python", + "style": "friendly" + } # POST using JSON - curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/ -d '{"code": "print 456"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" - - {"id": 4, "title": "", "code": "print 456", "linenos": true, "language": "python", "style": "friendly"} + http --json POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/ code="print 456" + + { + "id": 4, + "title": "", + "code": "print 456", + "linenos": true, + "language": "python", + "style": "friendly" + } Now go and open the API in a web browser, by visiting [http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/][devserver]. |