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Gaston C. Hillar
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Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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Working with wrappers to write API views


Our code in the games/views.py file declared a JSONResponse class and two function-based views. These functions returned JSONResponse when it was necessary to return JSON data and a django.Http.Response.HttpResponse instance when the response was just of an HTTP status code.

No matter the accepted content type specified in the HTTP request header, the view functions always provide the same content in the response body-JSON. Run the following two commands to retrieve all the games with different values for the Accept request header-text/html and application/json :

http :8000/games/ Accept:text/html
http :8000/games/ Accept:application/json

The following are the equivalent curl commands:

curl -H 'Accept: text/html' -iX GET :8000/games/
curl -H 'Accept: application/json' -iX GET :8000/games/

The preceding commands will compose and send the following HTTP request: GET http://localhost:8000/games/. The first command defines the text/html value for the Accept...

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Gaston C. Hillar

Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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