Building RESTful Python Web Services

Creating and retrieving related resources

Now, we will use the HTTPie command or its curl equivalents to compose and send HTTP requests to the API. We will use JSON for the requests that require additional data. Remember that you can perform the same tasks with your favorite GUI-based tool or with the browsable API.

First, we will compose and send an HTTP request to create a new game category. Remember that we used the browsable API to create a game category named '3D RPG'.

http POST :8000/game-categories/ name='2D mobile arcade'

The following is the equivalent curl command:

curl -iX POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"2D mobile arcade"}' :8000/game-categories/

The preceding command will compose and send a POST HTTP request with ...