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Django RESTful Web Services

You're reading from  Django RESTful Web Services

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788833929
Pages 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters close

Title Page
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About the Author
Preface
1. Installing the Required Software and Tools 2. Working with Models, Migrations, Serialization, and Deserialization 3. Creating API Views 4. Using Generalized Behavior from the APIView Class 5. Understanding and Customizing the Browsable API Feature 6. Working with Advanced Relationships and Serialization 7. Using Constraints, Filtering, Searching, Ordering, and Pagination 8. Securing the API with Authentication and Permissions 9. Applying Throttling Rules and Versioning Management 10. Automating Tests 11. Solutions 1. Other Books You May Enjoy

Sending HTTP requests with unsupported HTTP verbs


Now, we will compose and send HTTP requests with an HTTP verb that isn't supported for the toys resource collection. Run the following command:

http PATCH :8000/toys/

The following is the equivalent curl command:

curl -iX PATCH localhost:8000/toys/

The previous command will compose and send the following HTTP request: PATCH http://localhost:8000/toys/. The request will try to run the views.toy_list function, that is, the toy_list function declared within the toys/views.py file. The @api_view decorator we added to this function doesn't include 'PATCH' in the string list with the allowed HTTP verbs. The default behavior when this happens in the APIView class is to return an HTTP 405 Method Not Allowed status code. The following lines show a sample output with the response from the previous request. A JSON content provides a detail key with a string value that indicates the PATCH method is not allowed in the response body:

HTTP/1.0 405 Method Not...
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