Testing filtering, searching, and ordering

Now, we can launch Django's development server to compose and send HTTP requests. Execute any of the following two commands based on your needs to access the API in other devices or computers connected to your LAN. Remember that we analyzed the difference between them in Chapter 1, Developing RESTful APIs with Django.

python manage.py runserver
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

After we run any of the previous commands, the development server will start listening at port 8000:

Now, we will compose and send an HTTP request to retrieve all the game categories whose name matches 3D RPG:

http :8000/game-categories/?name=3D+RPG

The following is the equivalent curl command:

curl -iX GET :8000/game-categories/?name=3D+RPG

The following lines show a sample response with the single game category whose name matches the specified name in the filter. The following lines only show the JSON body without the headers:

{
    "count": 1, 
    "next": null, ...