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Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

By : Gaston C. Hillar
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Book Image

Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

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By: Gaston C. Hillar

Overview of this book

Python is the language of choice for millions of developers worldwide that builds great web services in RESTful architecture. This second edition of Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services will cover the best tools you can use to build engaging web services. This book shows you how to develop RESTful APIs using the most popular Python frameworks and all the necessary stacks with Python, combined with related libraries and tools. You’ll learn to incorporate all new features of Python 3.7, Flask 1.0.2, Django 2.1, Tornado 5.1, and also a new framework, Pyramid. As you advance through the chapters, you will get to grips with each of these frameworks to build various web services, and be shown use cases and best practices covering when to use a particular framework. You’ll then successfully develop RESTful APIs with all frameworks and understand how each framework processes HTTP requests and routes URLs. You’ll also discover best practices for validation, serialization, and deserialization. In the concluding chapters, you will take advantage of specific features available in certain frameworks such as integrated ORMs, built-in authorization and authentication, and work with asynchronous code. At the end of each framework, you will write tests for RESTful APIs and improve code coverage. By the end of the book, you will have gained a deep understanding of the stacks needed to build RESTful web services.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Filtering, searching and ordering in the Browsable API


We can take advantage of the Browsable API to easily test filtering, searching, and ordering features through a web browser. Open a web browser and enter http://localhost:8000/player-scores/. Replace localhost with the IP of the computer that is running the Django development server if you use another computer or device to run the browser.

The Browsable API will compose and send an HTTP GET request to /player-scores/ and will display the results of its execution; that is, the headers and the JSON player scores list. You will notice there is a new Filters button located at the left-hand side of the OPTIONS button.

Click on Filters and the Browsable API will display the Filters dialog box, with the appropriate controls for each filter that you can apply underneath Field Filters, and the different ordering options below Ordering.

 

The following screenshot shows the Filters dialog box:

Both the Player name and Game name drop-downs menu will...