Added API views based views

docs/views-and-generic-views.rst

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 Views and Generic Views
 ============================
 
+To start with, we will use the :code:`APIView` to build the polls list and poll detail API we built in the chapter, doc:apis-without-drf:.
+
+
+
 
 Creating Views
 ----------------

pollsapi/polls/apiviews.py

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+from django.shortcuts import render, get_object_or_404
+
+from .serializers import PollSerializer
+from .models import Poll
+
+from rest_framework.views import APIView
+from rest_framework.response import Response
+
+class PollList(APIView):
+    def get(self, request):
+        polls = Poll.objects.all()[:20]
+        data = PollSerializer(polls, many=True).data
+        return Response(data)
+
+
+
+class PollDetail(APIView):
+    def get(self, request, pk):
+        poll = get_object_or_404(Poll, pk=pk)
+        data = PollSerializer(poll).data
+        return Response(data)
+

pollsapi/polls/urls.py

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 from django.urls import path
 
 from .views import polls_list, polls_detail
-
+from .apiviews import PollList, PollDetail
 urlpatterns = [
-    path("polls/", polls_list, name="polls_list"),
-    path("polls/<int:pk>/", polls_detail, name="polls_detail")
+    path("polls/", PollList.as_view(), name="polls_list"),
+    path("polls/<int:pk>/", PollDetail.as_view(), name="polls_detail")
 ]