Overview

This endpoint it's the representation of the Category model found in wallet/models.py

http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/category/

Methods

• GET
• POST
• PUT
• DELETE

You can try out all this methods using your browsing. Just open the url from above. Just remember to be logged in first.

GET

Send GET request to http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/category/

It would return a JSON like this:

{
    "count": 6, 
    "next": null, 
    "previous": null, 
    "results": [
        {
            "id": 2, 
            "name": "Food"
        }, 
        {
            "id": 41, 
            "name": "Freelance Work"
        }, 
        {
            "id": 3, 
            "name": "Gas"
        }, 
        ...
    ]
}

POST

Send a POST request to http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/category/ with this JSON data structure:

{
    "name": "My new Category"
}

It will return a 201 status code if the category was created. And the created object like this:

{
    "id": 9,
    "name": "My new Category"
}

PUT

Send a PUT request to http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/category/ID/ with this JSON data structure:

{
    "id": 9,
    "name": "My new Category updated!"
}

It will return a 200 status code if the category was updated. And the updated object:

{
    "id": 9,
    "name": "My new Category updated!"
}

DELETE

Send a DELETE request to http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/category/ID/

It will return a 204 status code if the category was deleted

Tests

You can read the test code at wallet/tests.py. Just take a look at the TestCase CategoryTestCase