Using Django rest framework as a rest client

Question

I have a rest server that can be called e.g. with:

http://localhost:8080/myserver/rest/books/t1.json

I want to know how can I use from django rest framework as a client and call my rest server?

Do you want to provide a second API that calls the first API before delivering results or are you just looking to call an API programmatically? — Timmy O'Mahony
– Timmy O'Mahony, Commented Nov 20, 2014 at 18:35
I want to call programmatically the rest server and deserialize json/xml/yaml result. — mrbf
– mrbf, Commented Nov 20, 2014 at 18:43

Timmy O'Mahony · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-20 19:04:58Z

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Django Rest Framework is for creating REST APIs, not consuming them. To simply call a REST API from Django/Python you can do the following using json and urllib2 which are standard:

import json
import urllib2

data = json.load(urllib2.urlopen('http://myapi.com/'))

or you can use the 3rd party library requests:

import requests
r = requests.get('http://myapi.com/')
r.json()

answered Nov 20, 2014 at 19:04

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