Getting Started - Views ----------------------- .. note:: A live sandbox instance of this API is available: http://shielded-mountain-6732.herokuapp.com/resource-example/ You can browse the API using a web browser, or from the command line:: curl -X GET http://shielded-mountain-6732.herokuapp.com/resource-example/ -H 'Accept: text/plain' We're going to start off with a simple example, that demonstrates a few things: #. Creating views. #. Linking views. #. Writing method handlers on views. #. Adding form validation to views. First we'll define two views in our urlconf. ``urls.py`` .. include:: ../../examples/resourceexample/urls.py :literal: Now we'll add a form that we'll use for input validation. This is completely optional, but it's often useful. ``forms.py`` .. include:: ../../examples/resourceexample/forms.py :literal: Now we'll write our views. The first is a read only view that links to three instances of the second. The second view just has some stub handler methods to help us see that our example is working. ``views.py`` .. include:: ../../examples/resourceexample/views.py :literal: That's us done. Our API now provides both programmatic access using JSON and XML, as well a nice browseable HTML view, so we can now access it both from the browser: * http://shielded-mountain-6732.herokuapp.com/resource-example/ And from the command line: .. code-block:: bash # Demonstrates API's input validation using form input bash: curl -X POST --data 'foo=true' http://shielded-mountain-6732.herokuapp.com/resource-example/1/ {"detail": {"bar": ["This field is required."], "baz": ["This field is required."]}} # Demonstrates API's input validation using JSON input bash: curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-binary '{"foo":true}' http://shielded-mountain-6732.herokuapp.com/resource-example/1/ {"detail": {"bar": ["This field is required."], "baz": ["This field is required."]}}