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Building RESTful Python Web Services

By : Gaston C. Hillar
Book Image

Building RESTful Python Web Services

By: Gaston C. Hillar

Overview of this book

Python is the language of choice for millions of developers worldwide, due to its gentle learning curve as well as its vast applications in day-to-day programming. It serves the purpose of building great web services in the RESTful architecture. This book will show you the best tools you can use to build your own web services. Learn how to develop RESTful APIs using the popular Python frameworks and all the necessary stacks with Python, Django, Flask, and Tornado, combined with related libraries and tools. We will dive deep into each of these frameworks to build various web services, and will provide use cases and best practices on when to use a particular framework to get the best results. We will show you everything required to successfully develop RESTful APIs with the four frameworks such as request handling, URL mapping, serialization, validation, authentication, authorization, versioning, ORMs, databases, custom code for models and views, and asynchronous callbacks. At the end of each framework, we will add authentication and security to the RESTful APIs and prepare tests for it. By the end of the book, you will have a deep understanding of the stacks needed to build RESTful web services.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Building RESTful Python Web Services
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Using model serializers to eliminate duplicate code


The GameSerializer class declares many attributes with the same names that we used in the Game model and repeats information, such as the types and the max_length values. The GameSerializer class is a subclass of rest_framework.serializers.Serializer, it declares attributes that we manually mapped to the appropriate types and overrides the create and update methods.

Now, we will create a new version of the GameSerializer class that will inherit from the rest_framework.serializers.ModelSerializer class. The ModelSerializer class automatically populates both set of default fields and a set of default validators. In addition, the class provides default implementations for the create and update methods.

Tip

In case you have any experience with Django Web Framework, you will notice that the Serializer and ModelSerializer classes are similar to the Form and ModelForm classes.

Now, go to the gamesapi/games folder and open the serializers.py file....