I am going to make an api in django which currently only return hello world when the url is hit. I am new to python and django and find a bit difficult to work in django because of working in PHP and its frameworks for a long time.
I have followed the tutorials but that takes me making the models, templates. but my requirement is simple. How can i achieve this. That when i hit the url of DJango app it return me the hello world or any json object in future.
You define a view, that returns a HTTP response:
# app/views.py
from django.http import HttpResponse
def some_view(request):
return HttpResponse('hello world')and then you register your view in the urls.py:
# app/urls.py
from django.urls import url
from app.views import some_view
urlpatterns = [
url('^my_url/$', some_view),
]
(given this is the root urls.py or there is at least some path to these URL patterns.
Then you can run the server, and access this page with localhost:8000/my_url/ (or another URL given you configured it differently).
You can produce a JSON blob with:
# app/views.py
from django.http import JsonResponse
def some_view(request):
return JsonResponse({'world': 'earth', 'status': 'hello'})
http://127.0.0.1:8000/my_url/ is working fine but in future i have to make http://127.0.0.1:8000/my_url/name='any name' and i want to controll it in the viewlocalhost:8000/my_url/any_name. Or if it is a GET parameter, then you can use request.GET (then the URL is like localhost:8000/my_url?name=any+name.http://127.0.0.1:8000/my_url/fatpotato but it is giving me the 404 error.
\hello world??