Making requests that filter results

Now we can launch Django's development server to compose and send HTTP requests to understand how to use the previously coded filters. 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 3, Creating API Views, in the Launching Django's development server section:

python manage.py runserverpython 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 drone categories whose name is equal to Quadcopter, as shown below:

http ":8000/drone-categories/?name=Quadcopter"

The following is the equivalent curl command:

curl -iX GET "localhost:8000/drone-categories/?name=Quadcopter"

The following lines show a sample response with the single drone category whose name matches the specified...