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Building RESTful Python Web Services

You're reading from  Building RESTful Python Web Services

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462251
Pages 418 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
Profile icon Gaston C. Hillar

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Building RESTful Python Web Services
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Developing RESTful APIs with Django 2. Working with Class-Based Views and Hyperlinked APIs in Django 3. Improving and Adding Authentication to an API With Django 4. Throttling, Filtering, Testing, and Deploying an API with Django 5. Developing RESTful APIs with Flask 6. Working with Models, SQLAlchemy, and Hyperlinked APIs in Flask 7. Improving and Adding Authentication to an API with Flask 8. Testing and Deploying an API with Flask 9. Developing RESTful APIs with Tornado 10. Working with Asynchronous Code, Testing, and Deploying an API with Tornado 11. Exercise Answers

Browsing the API


With the recent edits, we made it possible for our API to use the default content renderers configured in Django REST Framework, and therefore, our API is capable of rendering the text/html content. We can take advantage of the browsable API, a feature included in Django REST Framework that generates human-friendly HTML output for each resource whenever the request specifies text/html as the value for the Content-type key in the request header.

Whenever we enter a URL for an API resource in a web browser, the browser will require an HTML response, and therefore, Django REST Framework will provide an HTML response built with Bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com). This response will include a section that displays the resource content in JSON, buttons to perform different requests, and forms to submit data to the resources. As everything in Django REST Framework, we can customize the templates and themes used to generate the browsable API.

Open a web browser and enter http://localhost...

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