PUT, GET ,POST ,DELETE methods using djangorest framework

Question

I'm using django rest framework , I use the post and get methods and it works, but I didn't understand how to use PUT and DELETE, do I use it in the html forms like : method='PUT' ? but i read that the browsers assimilated it to a GET method , do I write fonctions in my code for PUT and DELETE??

-I read many articles about rest and restful and I didn't understand the difference between it some people says that its the same , and others no but dont clarify,when I use POST and GET can I say that it's RESTFUL

thank you

Answer 1

Unless there's been a recent development, HTML forms do not support PUT nor DELETE methods. (GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE methods are part of HTTP, not HTML, more on this topic in this question)

However you can send PUT and DELETE requests using an HTTP client, e.g. Python has a library called requests you can use to send requests. Or if you want to do so from the front-end, e.g. from a browser, you can use JavaScript lib capable of sending out HTTP requests (or the more recent fetch() that comes with modern browsers, or its polyfill for older browsers)

e.g.

>>> import requests
>>> req = requests.request('PUT', 'http://yourapi/resource')
<Response [200]>