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Django RESTful Web Services

By : Gaston C. Hillar
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Django RESTful Web Services

By: Gaston C. Hillar

Overview of this book

Django is a Python web framework that makes the web development process very easy. It reduces the amount of trivial code, which simplifies the creation of web applications and results in faster development. It is very powerful and a great choice for creating RESTful web services. If you are a Python developer and want to efficiently create RESTful web services with Django for your apps, then this is the right book for you. The book starts off by showing you how to install and configure the environment, required software, and tools to create RESTful web services with Django and the Django REST framework. We then move on to working with advanced serialization and migrations to interact with SQLite and non-SQL data sources. We will use the features included in the Django REST framework to improve our simple web service. Further, we will create API views to process diverse HTTP requests on objects, go through relationships and hyperlinked API management, and then discover the necessary steps to include security and permissions related to data models and APIs. We will also apply throttling rules and run tests to check that versioning works as expected. Next we will run automated tests to improve code coverage. By the end of the book, you will be able to build RESTful web services with Django.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Preface

Writing new unit tests to improve the tests' code coverage


Our first round of unit tests was related to the drone category class-based views: DroneCategoryList and DroneCategoryDetail. Now, we will write a second round of unit tests related to the pilot class-based views: PilotList and PilotDetail. The new tests will be a bit more complex because we will have to work with authenticated requests.

In Chapter 8, Securing the API with Authentication and Permissions, we configured authentication and permission policies for the class-based views that work with the Pilot model. We overrode the values for the authentication_classes and permission_classes class attributes for the PilotDetail and PilotList classes. In order to create, read, update, or delete pilots, we have to provide an authentication token. Hence, we will write tests to make sure that an unauthenticated request cannot perform operations related to pilots. In addition, we want to make sure that an authenticated request with a token...