Bringing up the Web API

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Richard Wackerbarth 2013-01-09 11:19:12 -06:00
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## Testing our first attempt at a Web API
**TODO: Describe using runserver and making example requests from console**
Now we can start up a sample server that serves our snippets.
**TODO: Describe opening in a web browser and viewing json output**
Quit out of the shell
quit()
and start up Django's development server
python manage.py runserver
Validating models...
0 errors found
Django version 1.4.3, using settings 'tutorial.settings'
Development server is running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
In another terminal window, we can test the server.
We can get a list of all of the snippets (we only have one at the moment)
curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/
[{"id": 1, "title": "", "code": "print \"hello, world\"\n", "linenos": false, "language": "python", "style": "friendly"}]
or we can get a particular snippet by referencing its id
curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/1/
{"id": 1, "title": "", "code": "print \"hello, world\"\n", "linenos": false, "language": "python", "style": "friendly"}
Similarly, you can have the same json displayed by referencing these URLs from your favorite web browser.
## Where are we now