Module shortner.new_view

new_view module defines the NewView view

"""new_view module defines the NewView view"""

from django.http.request import HttpRequest
from django.http.response import HttpResponse
from django.views.generic import View
import json

from shortner.models import Link


class NewView(View):
    """NewView is responsible for creation of new shortened links"""

    def post(self, request: HttpRequest):
        """post handles post requests to /new"""
        httpBody = json.loads(request.body)
        long_url = httpBody["long_url"]
        link = Link(long_url)
        link.save()
        response = link.to_json()
        return HttpResponse(response, status=201)

Classes

class NewView (**kwargs)

NewView is responsible for creation of new shortened links

Constructor. Called in the URLconf; can contain helpful extra keyword arguments, and other things.

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class NewView(View):
    """NewView is responsible for creation of new shortened links"""

    def post(self, request: HttpRequest):
        """post handles post requests to /new"""
        httpBody = json.loads(request.body)
        long_url = httpBody["long_url"]
        link = Link(long_url)
        link.save()
        response = link.to_json()
        return HttpResponse(response, status=201)

Ancestors

• django.views.generic.base.View

Methods

def post(self, request: django.http.request.HttpRequest)

post handles post requests to /new

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def post(self, request: HttpRequest):
    """post handles post requests to /new"""
    httpBody = json.loads(request.body)
    long_url = httpBody["long_url"]
    link = Link(long_url)
    link.save()
    response = link.to_json()
    return HttpResponse(response, status=201)