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Responses
Unlike basic HttpResponse objects, TemplateResponse objects retain the details of the context that was provided by the view to compute the response. The final output of the response is not computed until it is needed, later in the response process.
REST framework supports HTTP content negotiation by providing a Response class which allows you to return content that can be rendered into multiple content types, depending on the client request.
The Response class subclasses Django's TemplateResponse. Response objects are initialised with content, which should consist of native python primatives. REST framework then uses standard HTTP content negotiation to determine how it should render the final response content.
There's no requirement for you to use the Response class, you can also return regular HttpResponse objects from your views if you want, but it does provide a better interface for returning Web API responses.