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Code repository for Building RESTful Python Web Services, published by Packt

Building RESTful Python Web Services

This is the code repository for Building RESTful Python Web Services, published by Packt. It contains all the supporting project files necessary to work through the book from start to finish.

Instructions and Navigations

All of the code is organized into folders. Each folder starts with a number followed by the application name. For example, Chapter02.

The code will look like the following:

from django.apps import AppConfig
  class GamesConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'games'

In order to work with the different samples for Python 3.5.x, you will need any computer with an Intel Core i3 or higher CPU and at least 4 GB RAM. You can work with any of the following operating systems:

• Windows 7 or greater (Windows 8, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10)
• macOS Mountain Lion or greater
• Any Linux version capable of running Python 3.5.x and any modern browser with JavaScript support You will need Python 3.5 or greater installed on your computer.

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building-restful-python-web-services's Issues

Cannot POST w/out header

I've been stuck on this for a few days now:
Pg 68 states that "The following is the equivalent curl command. Note that we don't use the -H option and curl will send the data in the default application/x-www-form-urlencoded:"

But when I
curl -iX POST -d '{"name":"Toy Story 4.2","release_date":"2019-05-18T03:02:00.776594Z","game_category":"3D RPG","played":"false"}' localhost:8000/games/
and when I
curl -iX POST -d '{"name":"Toy Story 4.2","release_date":"2019-05-18T03:02:00.776594Z","game_category":"3D RPG","played":"false"}' -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" localhost:8000/games/
I get

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 20:51:38 GMT
Server: WSGIServer/0.2 CPython/3.6.5
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept, Cookie
Allow: GET, OPTIONS, POST
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Content-Length: 44

{"release_date":["This field is required."]}

POST or DELETE in signature

I am having issues getting past pg 62. In my quest for an answer I've had some people suggest that line 30 of https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building-RESTful-Python-Web-Services/blob/master/Chapter%202/restful_python_chapter_02_02/gamesapi/games/views.py should have DELETE instead of POST.

Can you please confirm?

Directory structure is not the same as suggested in the book

There is no games/models.py file or other folders...

django-admin.py startproject gamesapi

(Django01) w@w-MacBook-Pro gamesapi % tree             
.
├── gamesapi
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── asgi.py
│   ├── settings.py
│   ├── urls.py
│   └── wsgi.py
└── manage.py

1 directory, 6 files
(Django01) w@w-MacBook-Pro gamesapi %