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diff --git a/docs/ref/request-response.txt b/docs/ref/request-response.txt index e7b285b086..a7e73ba1f5 100644 --- a/docs/ref/request-response.txt +++ b/docs/ref/request-response.txt @@ -766,6 +766,8 @@ Methods :setting:`DEFAULT_CHARSET` settings, by default: "`text/html; charset=utf-8`". ``status`` is the :rfc:`HTTP status code <7231#section-6>` for the response. + You can use Python's :py:class:`http.HTTPStatus` for meaningful aliases, + such as ``HTTPStatus.NO_CONTENT``. ``reason`` is the HTTP response phrase. If not provided, a default phrase will be used. @@ -969,6 +971,18 @@ types of HTTP responses. Like ``HttpResponse``, these subclasses live in :class:`~django.template.response.SimpleTemplateResponse`, and the ``render`` method must itself return a valid response object. +Custom response classes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +If you find yourself needing a response class that Django doesn't provide, you +can create it with the help of :py:class:`http.HTTPStatus`. For example:: + + from http import HTTPStatus + from django.http import HttpResponse + + class HttpResponseNoContent(HttpResponse): + status_code = HTTPStatus.NO_CONTENT + ``JsonResponse`` objects ======================== |