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-rw-r--r--docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md13
-rw-r--r--docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md9
-rw-r--r--docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md4
-rw-r--r--docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md4
-rw-r--r--docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md10
-rw-r--r--docs/tutorial/6-viewsets-and-routers.md12
-rw-r--r--docs/tutorial/quickstart.md43
7 files changed, 44 insertions, 51 deletions
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
index 96214f5b..b0565d91 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
@@ -64,9 +64,9 @@ We'll also need to add our new `snippets` app and the `rest_framework` app to `I
We also need to wire up the root urlconf, in the `tutorial/urls.py` file, to include our snippet app's URLs.
- urlpatterns = patterns('',
+ urlpatterns = [
url(r'^', include('snippets.urls')),
- )
+ ]
Okay, we're ready to roll.
@@ -297,11 +297,12 @@ We'll also need a view which corresponds to an individual snippet, and can be us
Finally we need to wire these views up. Create the `snippets/urls.py` file:
from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+ from snippets import views
- urlpatterns = patterns('snippets.views',
- url(r'^snippets/$', 'snippet_list'),
- url(r'^snippets/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', 'snippet_detail'),
- )
+ urlpatterns = [
+ url(r'^snippets/$', views.snippet_list),
+ url(r'^snippets/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', views.snippet_detail),
+ ]
It's worth noting that there are a couple of edge cases we're not dealing with properly at the moment. If we send malformed `json`, or if a request is made with a method that the view doesn't handle, then we'll end up with a 500 "server error" response. Still, this'll do for now.
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md b/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md
index e70bbbfc..136b0135 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md
@@ -110,11 +110,12 @@ Now update the `urls.py` file slightly, to append a set of `format_suffix_patter
from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
from rest_framework.urlpatterns import format_suffix_patterns
+ from snippets import views
- urlpatterns = patterns('snippets.views',
- url(r'^snippets/$', 'snippet_list'),
- url(r'^snippets/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)$', 'snippet_detail'),
- )
+ urlpatterns = [
+ url(r'^snippets/$', views.snippet_list),
+ url(r'^snippets/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)$', views.snippet_detail),
+ ]
urlpatterns = format_suffix_patterns(urlpatterns)
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md b/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md
index e04072ca..382f078a 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md
@@ -68,10 +68,10 @@ We'll also need to refactor our `urls.py` slightly now we're using class based v
from rest_framework.urlpatterns import format_suffix_patterns
from snippets import views
- urlpatterns = patterns('',
+ urlpatterns = [
url(r'^snippets/$', views.SnippetList.as_view()),
url(r'^snippets/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', views.SnippetDetail.as_view()),
- )
+ ]
urlpatterns = format_suffix_patterns(urlpatterns)
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md b/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md
index 74ad9a55..9120e254 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md
@@ -137,10 +137,10 @@ Add the following import at the top of the file:
And, at the end of the file, add a pattern to include the login and logout views for the browsable API.
- urlpatterns += patterns('',
+ urlpatterns += [
url(r'^api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls',
namespace='rest_framework')),
- )
+ ]
The `r'^api-auth/'` part of pattern can actually be whatever URL you want to use. The only restriction is that the included urls must use the `'rest_framework'` namespace.
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md b/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md
index 9c61fe3d..36473ce9 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md
@@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ If we're going to have a hyperlinked API, we need to make sure we name our URL p
After adding all those names into our URLconf, our final `snippets/urls.py` file should look something like this:
# API endpoints
- urlpatterns = format_suffix_patterns(patterns('snippets.views',
- url(r'^$', 'api_root'),
+ urlpatterns = format_suffix_patterns([
+ url(r'^$', views.api_root),
url(r'^snippets/$',
views.SnippetList.as_view(),
name='snippet-list'),
@@ -125,13 +125,13 @@ After adding all those names into our URLconf, our final `snippets/urls.py` file
url(r'^users/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$',
views.UserDetail.as_view(),
name='user-detail')
- ))
+ ])
# Login and logout views for the browsable API
- urlpatterns += patterns('',
+ urlpatterns += [
url(r'^api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls',
namespace='rest_framework')),
- )
+ ]
## Adding pagination
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/6-viewsets-and-routers.md b/docs/tutorial/6-viewsets-and-routers.md
index b2019520..cf37a260 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/6-viewsets-and-routers.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/6-viewsets-and-routers.md
@@ -87,14 +87,14 @@ Notice how we're creating multiple views from each `ViewSet` class, by binding t
Now that we've bound our resources into concrete views, we can register the views with the URL conf as usual.
- urlpatterns = format_suffix_patterns(patterns('snippets.views',
- url(r'^$', 'api_root'),
+ urlpatterns = format_suffix_patterns([
+ url(r'^$', api_root),
url(r'^snippets/$', snippet_list, name='snippet-list'),
url(r'^snippets/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', snippet_detail, name='snippet-detail'),
url(r'^snippets/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/highlight/$', snippet_highlight, name='snippet-highlight'),
url(r'^users/$', user_list, name='user-list'),
url(r'^users/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', user_detail, name='user-detail')
- ))
+ ])
## Using Routers
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ Because we're using `ViewSet` classes rather than `View` classes, we actually do
Here's our re-wired `urls.py` file.
- from django.conf.urls import patterns, url, include
+ from django.conf.urls import url, include
from snippets import views
from rest_framework.routers import DefaultRouter
@@ -113,10 +113,10 @@ Here's our re-wired `urls.py` file.
# The API URLs are now determined automatically by the router.
# Additionally, we include the login URLs for the browseable API.
- urlpatterns = patterns('',
+ urlpatterns = [
url(r'^', include(router.urls)),
url(r'^api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls', namespace='rest_framework'))
- )
+ ]
Registering the viewsets with the router is similar to providing a urlpattern. We include two arguments - the URL prefix for the views, and the viewset itself.
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/quickstart.md b/docs/tutorial/quickstart.md
index 98e5f439..813e9872 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/quickstart.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/quickstart.md
@@ -18,34 +18,23 @@ Create a new Django project named `tutorial`, then start a new app called `quick
pip install django
pip install djangorestframework
- # Set up a new project
- django-admin.py startproject tutorial
-
- # Create a new app
- python manage.py startapp quickstart
-
-Next you'll need to get a database set up and synced. If you just want to use SQLite for now, then you'll want to edit your `tutorial/settings.py` module to include something like this:
-
- DATABASES = {
- 'default': {
- 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
- 'NAME': 'database.sql',
- 'USER': '',
- 'PASSWORD': '',
- 'HOST': '',
- 'PORT': ''
- }
- }
+ # Set up a new project with a single application
+ django-admin.py startproject tutorial .
+ cd tutorial
+ django-admin.py startapp quickstart
+ cd ..
-The run `syncdb` like so:
+Now sync your database for the first time:
python manage.py syncdb
+Make sure to create an initial user named `admin` with a password of `password`. We'll authenticate as that user later in our example.
+
Once you've set up a database and got everything synced and ready to go, open up the app's directory and we'll get coding...
## Serializers
-First up we're going to define some serializers in `quickstart/serializers.py` that we'll use for our data representations.
+First up we're going to define some serializers. Let's create a new module named `tutorial/quickstart/serializers.py` that we'll use for our data representations.
from django.contrib.auth.models import User, Group
from rest_framework import serializers
@@ -66,11 +55,11 @@ Notice that we're using hyperlinked relations in this case, with `HyperlinkedMod
## Views
-Right, we'd better write some views then. Open `quickstart/views.py` and get typing.
+Right, we'd better write some views then. Open `tutorial/quickstart/views.py` and get typing.
from django.contrib.auth.models import User, Group
from rest_framework import viewsets
- from quickstart.serializers import UserSerializer, GroupSerializer
+ from tutorial.quickstart.serializers import UserSerializer, GroupSerializer
class UserViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
@@ -100,9 +89,9 @@ For trivial cases you can simply set a `model` attribute on the `ViewSet` class
Okay, now let's wire up the API URLs. On to `tutorial/urls.py`...
- from django.conf.urls import patterns, url, include
+ from django.conf.urls import url, include
from rest_framework import routers
- from quickstart import views
+ from tutorial.quickstart import views
router = routers.DefaultRouter()
router.register(r'users', views.UserViewSet)
@@ -110,10 +99,10 @@ Okay, now let's wire up the API URLs. On to `tutorial/urls.py`...
# Wire up our API using automatic URL routing.
# Additionally, we include login URLs for the browseable API.
- urlpatterns = patterns('',
+ urlpatterns = [
url(r'^', include(router.urls)),
url(r'^api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls', namespace='rest_framework'))
- )
+ ]
Because we're using viewsets instead of views, we can automatically generate the URL conf for our API, by simply registering the viewsets with a router class.
@@ -172,6 +161,8 @@ Or directly through the browser...
![Quick start image][image]
+If you're working through the browser, make sure to login using the control in the top right corner.
+
Great, that was easy!
If you want to get a more in depth understanding of how REST framework fits together head on over to [the tutorial][tutorial], or start browsing the [API guide][guide].