[WIP] API Explorer back-end

Review Request #7904 — Created Jan. 24, 2016 and discarded — Latest diff uploaded

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Djblets
master

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An API Explorer allows developers to make requests to the Web API from their browsers without having to download XML or JSON files. The API Explorer will display the response as syntax highlighted JSON in order to be understandable and facilitate development and understanding of the Web API.

In the future, users will be able to make POST, PUT and DELETE requests from a provided form and view documentation related to the resource.

This patch focuses on creating an HTML Encoder that will retrieve the payload and determine the resource being accessed.

Modifications to the way the Web API handles requests are also made to ensure that requests can also be made from a web browser.

Tested /api/users/<user_name> and /api/users/ which returned the correct information, in the proper format which displayed correctly in a web browser.