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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

Generalizing and mixing behavior


The previous classes took advantage of generalized behavior. Each of the superclasses for the classes mixed different generalized behaviors. The following table summarizes the HTTP verbs that each class-based view is going to process and the scope to which it applies. Notice that we can execute the OPTIONS HTTP verb on any of the scopes:

Scope

Class-based view name

HTTP verbs that it will process

Collection of drone categories: /drone-categories/

DroneCategoryList

GET, POST, and OPTIONS

Drone category: /drone-category/{id}

DroneCategoryDetail

GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, and OPTIONS

Collection of drones: /drones/

DroneList

GET, POST, and OPTIONS

Drone: /drone/{id}

DroneDetail

GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, and OPTIONS

Collection of Pilots: /pilots/

PilotList

GET, POST and OPTIONS

Pilot: /Pilot/{id}

PilotDetail

GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE and OPTIONS

Collection of competitions: /competitions/

CompetitionList

GET, POST and OPTIONS

Score: /competition/{id}

CompetitionDetail

GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE...