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Sending HTTP requests with unsupported HTTP verbs

Now, we will compose and send HTTP requests with an HTTP verb that isn't supported for the toys resource collection. Run the following command:

http PATCH :8000/toys/

The following is the equivalent curl command:

curl -iX PATCH localhost:8000/toys/

The previous command will compose and send the following HTTP request: PATCH http://localhost:8000/toys/. The request will try to run the views.toy_list function, that is, the toy_list function declared within the toys/views.py file. The @api_view decorator we added to this function doesn't include 'PATCH' in the string list with the allowed HTTP verbs. The default behavior when this happens in the APIView class is to return an HTTP 405 Method Not ...