The APIView
class specifies default settings for each view that we can override by specifying appropriate values in the gamesapi/settings.py
file or by overriding the class attributes in subclasses. As previously explained, the usage of the APIView
class under the hoods makes the decorator apply these default settings. Thus, whenever we use the decorator, the default parser classes and the default renderer classes will be associated with the function views.
By default, the value for the DEFAULT_PARSER_CLASSES
is the following tuple of classes:
( 'rest_framework.parsers.JSONParser', 'rest_framework.parsers.FormParser', 'rest_framework.parsers.MultiPartParser' )
When we use the decorator, the API will be able to handle any of the following content types through the appropriate parsers when accessing the request.data
attribute:
application/json
application/x-www-form-urlencoded
multipart/form-data