Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

Working with endpoints for the API

We will create an endpoint for the root of our API to make it easier to browse the API with the browsable API feature and understand how everything works. Open the views.py file in the games_service/games folder and add the following code after the last line to declare the ApiRoot class. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_2_06_01 folder, in the Django01/games-service/games/serializers.py file:

class ApiRoot(generics.GenericAPIView): name = 'api-root' def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs): return Response({ 'players': reverse(PlayerList.name, request=request), 'esrb-ratings': reverse(EsrbRatingList.name, request=request), 'games': reverse(GameList.name, request=request), 'scores': ...