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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
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Preface

Running migrations that generate relationships


We must create the initial migration for the new models we recently coded. We just need to run the following Python scripts and we will also synchronize the database for the first time. As we learned from our previous RESTful Web Service sample, by default, Django uses an SQLite database.

In this new example, we will be working with a PostgreSQL database. However, in case you want to use an SQLite, you can skip all the next steps related to PostgreSQL, its configuration in Django, and jump to the migrations generation command. You will also have to use the SQLite utilities instead of the PostgreSQL tools to analyze the database.

We will use the PostgreSQL command-line tools to create a new database named toys. In case you already have a PostgreSQL database with this name, make sure that you use another name in all the commands and configurations. You can perform the same tasks with any PostgreSQL GUI tool or any database administration tool that...