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Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services

You're reading from   Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services Develop RESTful web services or APIs with modern Python 3.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789532227
Length 500 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Developing RESTful APIs and Microservices with Flask 1.0.2 FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Models, SQLAlchemy, and Hyperlinked APIs in Flask 3. Improving Our API and Adding Authentication to it with Flask 4. Testing and Deploying an API in a Microservice with Flask 5. Developing RESTful APIs with Django 2.1 6. Working with Class-Based Views and Hyperlinked APIs in Django 2.1 7. Improving Our API and Adding Authentication to it with Django 8. Throttling, Filtering, Testing, and Deploying an API with Django 2.1 9. Developing RESTful APIs with Pyramid 1.10 10. Developing RESTful APIs with Tornado 5.1.1 11. Working with Asynchronous Code, Testing, and Deploying an API with Tornado 12. Assessment 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with wrappers to write API views

Our code in the games_service/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 an HTTP status code. Hence, no matter what the accepted content type that's 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. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_2_06_01 folder, in the Django01/cmd/cmd601.txt file:

    http -v ":8000/games/" "Accept:text/html"
    http -v ":8000/games/" "Accept...
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