I am new to Django and API creation. I am trying to figure out if it is better to use djangorestframework or just use JsonResponse. I got the suggestion of djangorestframework from Digital Ocean's tutorial but also found out about JsonResponse, which seems simpler given that I don't have to install another package.
Goal: I would like to be able to provide user information for both web and mobile applications.
I see that there are some reasons provided on this post for djangorestframework, which I pasted below for posteriority.
The common cases for using DRF are:
1)You're creating a public-facing external API for third-party
developers to access the data in your site, and you want to output
JSON they can use in their apps rather than HTML.
2)You're doing mobile development and you want your mobile app to make
GET/PUT/POST requests to a Django backend, and then have your backend
output data (usually as JSON) to the mobile app. Since you don't want
to pass back HTML to the mobile app, you use DRF to effectively create
a REST API that your mobile app can call.
3)You're creating a web app, but you don't want to use the Django
templating language. Instead you want to use the Django ORM but output
everything as JSON and have your frontend created by a JavaScript MVC
framework such as React, Backbone, AngularJS, etc. In those cases, you
can use DRF to output JSON that the JavaScript framework can process.
DRF basically provides you many features to make APIs that you don't have in raw django.
for example:
Serializers: a declarative way(django style like declaring models) of making serializers, when you use JsonResponse you have to tell everywhere what to serialize, with the serializer you have to import it and just use it, also this serializers can be able to save/update objects too. Also support ORM source to connect yours models(think how difficult would be serialize a model with nested relations with JsonResponse).
The Web browsable API, you can see all the availables endpoints.
Third party packages to install and use: https://www.django-rest-framework.org/community/third-party-packages/#existing-third-party-packages.
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Do any of the front end frameworks (Like Vue.js) have the ability to generate a prototype form/view directly from various an Endpoints?
I am wanting to quickly knock up a few forms to capture and submit data to a set of JSON Rest Post APIs and Display pages to render data retrieved from other JSON Rest Get APIs.
I don't want to have to go through the pain of having to map each and every field out in a set of .js file, it would be great if the boilerplate could just be generated from interface in a similar way to what Apache Isis does from a Domain model.
The above would allow me/clients to generate a UI directly off the interface and interact with it using a web browser in a similar way one would using Postman, without having to install and understand Postman.
You can try one of these:
https://vue-crud.github.io/
https://github.com/dionmaicon/vue-crudgen
https://github.com/ais-one/vue-crud-x - described in https://codeburst.io/vue-crud-x-a-highly-customisable-crud-component-using-vuejs-and-vuetify-2b1539ce2054
https://api-platform.com/docs/distribution/
I recently started learning to create restful web services with spring framework.
all the course is using postman to send requests but I want to send requests from a web page, like creating a table and send firstName and lastName from the HTML file (from the view, .jsp file) and store it in the database.
everywhere I lookt, they all saying the standard file to send to or retrieve from a restful endpoint is JSON, not HTML.
and from what I see #RequestBody only accepts JSON or XML, not HTML inputs.
I tried sending data from HTML(Method = "POST") to a #PostMapping method of my restful web server, to create something and store it in the database but an exception that says "Content-type not supported" was thrown.
I have lots of questions about this, and they all point to the same thing, Not understanding the whole thing.
what's the point of creating restful web service for the back end of a website, when HTML doesn't support put and delete requests and standard file that everyone uses to get requests from the client is JSON, not HTML.
can a web page (HTML) generate it's content to form a JSON file that is being sent back from a restful server?
how can I generate a JSON file from the inputs in HTML file and send it to the restful #PostMapping method?
there are two things that I should mention here,
I don't know much about creating web pages (HTML) I have only been creating very simple HTML files to help me create and test a back end server.
I searched so many questions before I post this one, and none of them helped me.
I will try to answer your questions
First, you need to understand what rest is it is a Representational state transfer (REST) is a software architectural style that defines a set of constraints to be used for creating Web services.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer)
so we follow a set of standards to make things easier.
Now coming to your actual question why JSON and not HTML because these are not only consumed from HTML these are consumed by different apps or services and json is a more lightweight and less verbose format, and it’s easier to read and write as well. In most cases, it’s ideal for data interchange over the internet
and we can use it with front end libraries like react , jquery or vanilla javascript to render the content in HTML from JSON without any changes to the API and also use a Backend web service to use this API.
https://api.jquery.com/jQuery.getJSON/
https://reactjs.org/docs/faq-ajax.html
for the other two questions basically You don't have to generate JSON file to call the rest API from HTML and render the content in HTML Instead you can use front end libraries like Jquery, React, Angular or use vanilla javascript to render content and call the rest API.
I need to know how data returned from the Spring MVC REST controller attaches to html page and what the Spring configuration do we have to do this.
The browser just prints this data out without view and that's all.
I have some Spring configurations to do it but unfortunatelly it doesn't work.
First, you have to create a spring web-mvc application with a correct configuration that will run without errors. There are plenty of tutorials on how to do it. After that, if you wish to get json data using your rest controllers, the most popular way to do it is by using javascript and the JQuery library. Using them you can make ajax calls to your api. There are plenty of tutorials on how to achive this again. Finnaly, your data will be on the client side and you can manage them (render them in your html-dom etc) using javascript and JQuery again.
I am starting an Ember application from scratch that will connect to many non-standard JSON APIs which I don't control and from which I only need bits and pieces of data. My first attempt was to use jQuery alone but the code quickly became hard to read and maintain.
I want to use the Ember-Data RESTAdapter with some Serializers. I may need multiple Adapters and Serializers for the different APIs.
I am trying to figure out a good way to break down the work into logical steps.
What process should I follow?
For example:
"Start with what I need" approach:
Model ALL my objects using the FixtureAdapter as the ApplicationAdapter
Implement sample app using the models to ensure it's logically correct
Switch the FixtureAdapter for the RESTAdapter
Extend the RESTAdapter for each Model to map to the different APIs
Create a Serializer for each Model Adapter
-or-
"Start with what I can get" approach:
Extend a SINGLE ModelAdapter at a time, mapping it to the necessary API end-point
Create the Model for my ModelAdapter
Create the Serializer for that ModelAdapter
Implement model in the app
Repeat
I am fairly new to Grails, and I have a few questions on how to proceed.
I have a REST API which I will use to retrieve the data , for exemple :
http://localhost/api/data/list
Which gives this result :
{"data":[{"col1":"blabla","col2":0},{"col1":"moreblabla","col2":1}]}
I want to use Grails to build an interface for those data (show, edit, add, delete)
Should I create a domain called Data ?
How do I tell Grails to to use the REST API and not a database ?
I am really clueless so I hope you can light the way ;)
Thank you.
Grails currently doesn't have a GORM plugin for using a REST endpoint as a persistence store. That is planned functionality, but is not slated to land until later this year (2012 - Q4).
That being said, you can write a service that will allow you to do basic CRUD operations on an object and get/persist to and from your REST endpoint. The place to start with that is the HttpBuilder, and perhaps the REST client plugin.