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Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

By : Michael Dinder
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Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

By: Michael Dinder

Overview of this book

Django is a powerful framework but choosing the right add-ons that match the scale and scope of your enterprise projects can be tricky. This book will help you explore the multifarious options available for enterprise Django development. Countless organizations are already using Django and more migrating to it, unleashing the power of Python with many different packages and dependencies, including AI technologies. This practical guide will help you understand practices, blueprints, and design decisions to put Django to work the way you want it to. You’ll learn various ways in which data can be rendered onto a page and discover the power of Django for large-scale production applications. Starting with the basics of getting an enterprise project up and running, you'll get to grips with maintaining the project throughout its lifecycle while learning what the Django application lifecycle is. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to build and deploy a Django project to the web and implement various components into the site.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Starting a Project
5
Part 2 – Django Components
10
Part 3 – Advanced Django Components

Serializing objects

Creating an API starts with creating a serializer class and then creating a view, in particular a ModelViewSet view class. Serializing objects means converting a model object into JSON format to represent the data of that object. The last thing we need to do is create URL patterns that map to the view classes that we wrote; this will be done using URL routers. These URL patterns are considered your API endpoints.

One thing to note in this section is that we need to create serializers for all models that relate to other models when using related fields. This is why the following exercises will show examples for all four models of the chapter_3 app. This has to be done in order to ensure that we do not get errors when using the Browsable API, which we will introduce later in this chapter, and when performing API requests. This means if you have multiple Seller that have been assigned a Group or Permission, that Group and/or Permission object will also have to be...