Django Rest Framework

This is a quickstart app to the django rest framework which quicky creates a simple API to view and edit the users and groups in the system.

Start the django app:

(venv)$ python3 manage.py runserver

On the terminal, we can use either the curl command or the http command to test the API.

• Using the curl command:

  (venv)$ curl -H 'Accept: application/json; indent=4' -u admin:password123 http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/
  
  # Output
  {
      "count": 2,
      "next": null,
      "previous": null,
      "results": [
          {
              "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/2/",
              "username": "harry",
              "email": "admin@example.com",
              "groups": []
          },
          {
              "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/1/",
              "username": "admin",
              "email": "admin@email.com",
              "groups": []
          }
      ]
  }

• Using http command:

  # Ensure you have installed httpie (pip3 install httpie)
  
  (venv)$ http -a admin:password123 http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/
  
  # Output
  
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Allow: GET, POST, HEAD, OPTIONS
  Content-Length: 249
  Content-Type: application/json
  Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin
  Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 13:52:58 GMT
  Referrer-Policy: same-origin
  Server: WSGIServer/0.2 CPython/3.8.10
  Vary: Accept, Cookie
  X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
  X-Frame-Options: DENY
  
  {
      "count": 2,
      "next": null,
      "previous": null,
      "results": [
          {
              "email": "admin@example.com",
              "groups": [],
              "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/2/",
              "username": "harry"
          },
          {
              "email": "admin@email.com",
              "groups": [],
              "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/1/",
              "username": "admin"
          }
      ]
  }