Let's take a look at a quick example of using REST framework to build a simple model-backed API. We'll create a read-write API for accessing information on the users of our project.

Again, if we need more control over the API URLs we can simply drop down to using regular class-based views, and writing the URL conf explicitly. Finally, we're including default login and logout …

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By having these API endpoints, your client apps such as AngularJS, iOS, Android, and others can communicate to your Django backend site independently via REST APIs for user management.

The browsable API that REST framework provides makes it possible for your API to be entirely self describing. The documentation for each API endpoint can be provided simply by visiting the URL in …

Because the API chooses the content type of the response based on the client request, it will, by default, return an HTML-formatted representation of the resource when that resource is requested by a web …

If the generic views don't suit the needs of your API, you can drop down to using the regular APIView class, or reuse the mixins and base classes used by the generic views to compose your own set of …

API schemas are a useful tool that allow for a range of use cases, including generating reference documentation, or driving dynamic client libraries that can interact with your API.

The first thing we need to get started on our Web API is to provide a way of serializing and deserializing the snippet instances into representations such as json.

As REST framework's Request extends Django's HttpRequest, all the other standard attributes and methods are also available. For example the request.META and request.session dictionaries are …