When I started rewriting the API for addons.mozilla.org, my views were mostly the same: get some data and render it as either JSON or XML. I also wanted all my API methods to take an api_version parameter, so I decided class based views would be best. This way my classes could just inherit [...]
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I just released Fixture Magic.
When dealing with legacy data, you’ll run into all kinds of edge cases. Perhaps, an object might not display correctly unless it has the right parameters, or if it has null parameters it might not display at all. So when testing Django, it’s nice to actually use non-dummy data. [...]
