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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

Configuring a new web service


We added a new Django app to our existing Django project. Use your favorite editor or IDE to check the Python code in the apps.py file within the restful01/drones folder (restful01\drones in Windows). The following lines show the code for this file:

from django.apps import AppConfig 
 
 
class DronesConfig(AppConfig): 
    name = 'drones'

The code declares the DronesConfig class as a subclass of the django.apps.AppConfig class that represents a Django application and its configuration. The DronesConfig class just defines the name class attribute and sets its value to 'drones'.

Now, we have to add drones.apps.DronesConfig as one of the installed apps in the restful01/settings.py file that configures settings for the restful01 Django project. I built the previous string by concatenating many values as follows: app name + .apps. + class name, which is, drones + .apps. + DronesConfig.

Note

We already added the rest_framework app to make it possible for us to use the...