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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 executed our first version of a simple Django RESTful Web Service that interacts with an SQLite database. We wrote API views to process diverse HTTP requests on a collection of toys and on a specific toy. We worked with the following HTTP verbs: GET, POST, and PUT. We configured the URL patterns list to route URLs to views.

Then, we started the Django development server and we used command-line tools (curl and HTTPie) to compose and send diverse HTTP requests to our RESTful Web Service. We learned how HTTP requests were processed in Django and our code. Finally, we worked with Postman, a GUI tool, to compose and send other HTTP requests to our RESTful Web Service.

Now that we understand the basics of a RESTful Web Service with Django REST framework and a simple SQLite database, we will work with a seriously powerful PostgreSQL database, use class-based views instead of function views, and we will take advantage of advanced features included in Django REST framework...