Django 2 by Example

Building a RESTful API

You might want to create an interface for other services to interact with your web application. By building an API, you can allow third parties to consume information and operate with your application programmatically.

There are several ways you can structure your API but following REST principles is encouraged. The REST architecture comes from Representational State Transfer. RESTful APIs are resource-based. Your models represent resources and HTTP methods such as GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE are used to retrieve, create, update, or delete objects. HTTP response codes are also used in this context. Different HTTP response codes are returned to indicate the result of the HTTP request, for example, 2XX response codes for ...