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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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  1. Under the hoods, the @api_view decorator is:

    1. A wrapper that converts a function-based view into a subclass of the rest_framework.views.APIView class.

    2. A wrapper that converts a function-based view into a serializer.

    3. A wrapper that converts a function-based view into a subclass of the rest_framework.views.api_view class.

  2. The browsable API, a feature included in Django REST Framework that:

    1. Generates human-friendly JSON output for each resource whenever the request specifies application/json as the value for the Content-type key in the request header.

    2. 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.

    3. Generates human-friendly HTML output for each resource whenever the request specifies application/json as the value for the Content-type key in the request header.

  3. The rest_framework.serializers.ModelSerializer class:

    1. Automatically populates both a set of default constraints...

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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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