Creating and retrieving related resources

Now we will use the HTTP 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 as your favorite GUI-based tool or with the browsable API.

First, we will run the following command to compose and send an HTTP POST request to create a new ESRB rating. Remember that we used the browsable API to create an ESRB rating with the following description: 'AO (Adults Only)'. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_2_06_01 folder, in the Django01/cmd/cmd615.txt file:

    http POST ":8000/esrb-ratings/" description='T (Teen)'
  

The following is the equivalent

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