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diff --git a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md index a3c19858..dea43cc0 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md @@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ The tutorial is fairly in-depth, so you should probably get a cookie and a cup o Before we do anything else we'll create a new virtual environment, using [virtualenv]. This will make sure our package configuration is kept nicely isolated from any other projects we're working on. - :::bash virtualenv env source env/bin/activate @@ -75,12 +74,8 @@ For the purposes of this tutorial we're going to start by creating a simple `Sni title = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True, default='') code = models.TextField() linenos = models.BooleanField(default=False) - language = models.CharField(choices=LANGUAGE_CHOICES, - default='python', - max_length=100) - style = models.CharField(choices=STYLE_CHOICES, - default='friendly', - max_length=100) + language = models.CharField(choices=LANGUAGE_CHOICES, default='python', max_length=100) + style = models.CharField(choices=STYLE_CHOICES, default='friendly', max_length=100) class Meta: ordering = ('created',) @@ -101,30 +96,27 @@ The first thing we need to get started on our Web API is to provide a way of ser class SnippetSerializer(serializers.Serializer): pk = serializers.IntegerField(read_only=True) - title = serializers.CharField(required=False, - max_length=100) + title = serializers.CharField(required=False, allow_blank=True, max_length=100) code = serializers.CharField(style={'type': 'textarea'}) linenos = serializers.BooleanField(required=False) - language = serializers.ChoiceField(choices=LANGUAGE_CHOICES, - default='python') - style = serializers.ChoiceField(choices=STYLE_CHOICES, - default='friendly') + language = serializers.ChoiceField(choices=LANGUAGE_CHOICES, default='python') + style = serializers.ChoiceField(choices=STYLE_CHOICES, default='friendly') - def create(self, validated_attrs): + def create(self, validated_data): """ Create and return a new `Snippet` instance, given the validated data. """ - return Snippet.objects.create(**validated_attrs) + return Snippet.objects.create(**validated_data) - def update(self, instance, validated_attrs): + def update(self, instance, validated_data): """ Update and return an existing `Snippet` instance, given the validated data. """ - instance.title = validated_attrs.get('title', instance.title) - instance.code = validated_attrs.get('code', instance.code) - instance.linenos = validated_attrs.get('linenos', instance.linenos) - instance.language = validated_attrs.get('language', instance.language) - instance.style = validated_attrs.get('style', instance.style) + instance.title = validated_data.get('title', instance.title) + instance.code = validated_data.get('code', instance.code) + instance.linenos = validated_data.get('linenos', instance.linenos) + instance.language = validated_data.get('language', instance.language) + instance.style = validated_data.get('style', instance.style) instance.save() return instance @@ -181,7 +173,9 @@ Deserialization is similar. First we parse a stream into Python native datatype serializer = SnippetSerializer(data=data) serializer.is_valid() # True - serializer.object + serializer.validated_data + # OrderedDict([('title', ''), ('code', 'print "hello, world"\n'), ('linenos', False), ('language', 'python'), ('style', 'friendly')]) + serializer.save() # <Snippet: Snippet object> Notice how similar the API is to working with forms. The similarity should become even more apparent when we start writing views that use our serializer. @@ -210,7 +204,7 @@ One nice property that serializers have is that you can inspect all the fields i >>> from snippets.serializers import SnippetSerializer >>> serializer = SnippetSerializer() - >>> print repr(serializer) # In python 3 use `print(repr(serializer))` + >>> print(repr(serializer)) SnippetSerializer(): id = IntegerField(label='ID', read_only=True) title = CharField(allow_blank=True, max_length=100, required=False) @@ -301,7 +295,7 @@ 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 django.conf.urls import url from snippets import views urlpatterns = [ @@ -332,17 +326,51 @@ Quit out of the shell... In another terminal window, we can test the server. -We can get a list of all of the snippets. - - 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"}] +We can test our API using using [curl][curl] or [httpie][httpie]. Httpie is a user friendly http client that's written in Python. Let's install that. + +You can install httpie using pip: + + pip install httpie + +Finally, we can get a list of all of the snippets: + + 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" + } + ] -Or we can get a particular snippet by referencing its id. +Or we can get a particular snippet by referencing its id: - curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/2/ + http http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/2/ - {"id": 2, "title": "", "code": "print \"hello, world\"\n", "linenos": false, "language": "python", "style": "friendly"} + HTTP/1.1 200 OK + ... + { + "id": 2, + "title": "", + "code": "print \"hello, world\"\n", + "linenos": false, + "language": "python", + "style": "friendly" + } Similarly, you can have the same json displayed by visiting these URLs in a web browser. @@ -359,3 +387,5 @@ We'll see how we can start to improve things in [part 2 of the tutorial][tut-2]. [sandbox]: http://restframework.herokuapp.com/ [virtualenv]: http://www.virtualenv.org/en/latest/index.html [tut-2]: 2-requests-and-responses.md +[httpie]: https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie#installation +[curl]: http://curl.haxx.se 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]. diff --git a/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md b/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md index 4e4edeea..a6d27bf7 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ And now we can add a `.save()` method to our model class: When that's all done we'll need to update our database tables. Normally we'd create a database migration in order to do that, but for the purposes of this tutorial, let's just delete the database and start again. - rm tmp.db + rm -f tmp.db db.sqlite3 rm -r snippets/migrations python manage.py makemigrations snippets python manage.py migrate @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Now that we've got some users to work with, we'd better add representations of t from django.contrib.auth.models import User class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): - snippets = serializers.PrimaryKeyRelatedField(many=True) + snippets = serializers.PrimaryKeyRelatedField(many=True, queryset=Snippet.objects.all()) class Meta: model = User @@ -198,15 +198,25 @@ If we're interacting with the API programmatically we need to explicitly provide If we try to create a snippet without authenticating, we'll get an error: - curl -i -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/ -d "code=print 123" + http POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/ code="print 123" - {"detail": "Authentication credentials were not provided."} + { + "detail": "Authentication credentials were not provided." + } We can make a successful request by including the username and password of one of the users we created earlier. - curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/ -d "code=print 789" -u tom:password - - {"id": 5, "owner": "tom", "title": "foo", "code": "print 789", "linenos": false, "language": "python", "style": "friendly"} + http POST -a tom:password http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/ code="print 789" + + { + "id": 5, + "owner": "tom", + "title": "foo", + "code": "print 789", + "linenos": false, + "language": "python", + "style": "friendly" + } ## Summary diff --git a/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md b/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md index 50552616..58422929 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Instead of using a concrete generic view, we'll use the base class for represent As usual we need to add the new views that we've created in to our URLconf. We'll add a url pattern for our new API root in `snippets/urls.py`: - url(r'^$', 'api_root'), + url(r'^$', views.api_root), And then add a url pattern for the snippet highlights: diff --git a/docs/tutorial/quickstart.md b/docs/tutorial/quickstart.md index 3e1ce0a9..c3f95994 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/quickstart.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/quickstart.md @@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ Create a new Django project named `tutorial`, then start a new app called `quick pip install djangorestframework # Set up a new project with a single application - django-admin.py startproject tutorial + django-admin.py startproject tutorial . cd tutorial django-admin.py startapp quickstart - cd .. + cd .. Now sync your database for the first time: @@ -159,6 +159,33 @@ We can now access our API, both from the command-line, using tools like `curl`.. ] } +Or using the [httpie][httpie], command line tool... + + bash: http -a username:password http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/ + + HTTP/1.1 200 OK + ... + { + "count": 2, + "next": null, + "previous": null, + "results": [ + { + "email": "admin@example.com", + "groups": [], + "url": "http://localhost:8000/users/1/", + "username": "paul" + }, + { + "email": "tom@example.com", + "groups": [ ], + "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/2/", + "username": "tom" + } + ] + } + + Or directly through the browser... ![Quick start image][image] @@ -173,3 +200,4 @@ If you want to get a more in depth understanding of how REST framework fits toge [image]: ../img/quickstart.png [tutorial]: 1-serialization.md [guide]: ../#api-guide +[httpie]: https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie#installation |