From cb123e896ed2dca230088296db9663af5a53252d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rikki Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 03:08:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Mention name of file to edit To reduce unnecessary cognitive load of the learner, name the file they are putting this code in. --- docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md b/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md index 9fc424fee..67a75d9f4 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ We can also write our API views using class based views, rather than function ba ## Rewriting our API using class based views -We'll start by rewriting the root view as a class based view. All this involves is a little bit of refactoring. +We'll start by rewriting the root view as a class based view. All this involves is a little bit of refactoring of `views.py`. from snippets.models import Snippet from snippets.serializers import SnippetSerializer @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ We'll start by rewriting the root view as a class based view. All this involves return Response(serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED) return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST) -So far, so good. It looks pretty similar to the previous case, but we've got better separation between the different HTTP methods. We'll also need to update the instance view. +So far, so good. It looks pretty similar to the previous case, but we've got better separation between the different HTTP methods. We'll also need to update the instance view in `views.py`. class SnippetDetail(APIView): """ @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ So far, so good. It looks pretty similar to the previous case, but we've got be That's looking good. Again, it's still pretty similar to the function based view right now. -We'll also need to refactor our URLconf slightly now we're using class based views. +We'll also need to refactor our `urls.py` slightly now we're using class based views. from django.conf.urls import patterns, url from rest_framework.urlpatterns import format_suffix_patterns @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ One of the big wins of using class based views is that it allows us to easily co The create/retrieve/update/delete operations that we've been using so far are going to be pretty similar for any model-backed API views we create. Those bits of common behaviour are implemented in REST framework's mixin classes. -Let's take a look at how we can compose our views by using the mixin classes. +Let's take a look at how we can compose our `views.py` by using the mixin classes. from snippets.models import Snippet from snippets.serializers import SnippetSerializer @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Pretty similar. Again we're using the `GenericAPIView` class to provide the cor ## Using generic class based views -Using the mixin classes we've rewritten the views to use slightly less code than before, but we can go one step further. REST framework provides a set of already mixed-in generic views that we can use. +Using the mixin classes we've rewritten the views to use slightly less code than before, but we can go one step further. REST framework provides a set of already mixed-in generic views that we can use to trim down `views.py` even more. from snippets.models import Snippet from snippets.serializers import SnippetSerializer