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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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About the Author
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we understood the importance of throttling rules and how we can combine them with authentication and permissions in Django, the Django REST framework and RESTful Web Services. We analyzed the throttling classes included in the Django REST framework out of the box.

We followed the necessary steps to configure many throttling policies in the Django REST framework. We worked with global and scope-related settings. Then, we used command-line tools to compose and send many requests to test how the throttling rules worked.

We understood versioning classes and we configured a URL path versioning scheme to allow us to work with two versions of our RESTful Web Service. We used command-line tools and the browsable API to understand the differences between the two versions.

Now that we can combine throttling rules, authentication and permission policies with versioning schemes, it is time to explore other features offered by the Django REST framework and third-party packages to...