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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)
Title Page
www.PacktPub.com
About the Author
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we designed a RESTful Web Service to interact with a simple SQLite database and perform CRUD operations with toys. We defined the requirements for our web service and we understood the tasks performed by each HTTP method and the different scopes.

We created a model to represent and persist toys, and we executed migrations in Django to create the required tables in an SQLite database. We analyzed the tables that Django generated. We learned to manage serialization of toy instances into JSON representations with Django REST framework and the reverse process.

Now that we understand models, migrations, serialization, and deserialization with Django and Django REST framework, we will create Django views combined with serializer classes and start making HTTP requests to our web service. We will cover these topics in Chapter 3, Creating API Views.