How to use/acess django rest api in python console application-CodePudding

I am new to Python and Django frameworks. I have Rest API's developed using Django framework, how to access Rest API's and display response in Python Console application?

Thanks

CodePudding user response：

If you want to go all the way you need a http client in python, A popular one is requests

to use this in terminal you can just do

import requests
response = requests.get('http://localhost/api/myview')
print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)
print(response.json)

The drawback to this is that the server actually has to be running, if you want to play around without starting a server you have more options!

You can also use the test clients built into Django, like this

from rest_framework.test import APIClient

client = APIClient()
response = client.get('/api/myview/')

Or even construct a Request and call the view directly.

from rest_framework.test import APIRequestFactory
from myproject.views import MyViewClass

view = MyViewClass.as_view()

factory = APIRequestFactory()
request = factory.get('/api/myview/')
response = view(request)