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Learn Web Development with Python

By : Fabrizio Romano, Gaston C. Hillar, Arun Ravindran
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Learn Web Development with Python

By: Fabrizio Romano, Gaston C. Hillar, Arun Ravindran

Overview of this book

If you want to develop complete Python web apps with Django, this Learning Path is for you. It will walk you through Python programming techniques and guide you in implementing them when creating 4 professional Django projects, teaching you how to solve common problems and develop RESTful web services with Django and Python. You will learn how to build a blog application, a social image bookmarking website, an online shop, and an e-learning platform. Learn Web Development with Python will get you started with Python programming techniques, show you how to enhance your applications with AJAX, create RESTful APIs, and set up a production environment for your Django projects. Last but not least, you’ll learn the best practices for creating real-world applications. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have a full understanding of how Django works and how to use it to build web applications from scratch. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Learn Python Programming by Fabrizio Romano • Django RESTful Web Services by Gastón C. Hillar • Django Design Patterns and Best Practices by Arun Ravindran
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Writing unit tests for a RESTful Web Service


Now, we will write our first round of unit tests related to the drone category class based views: DroneCategoryList and DroneCategoryDetail. Open the existing restful01/drones/tests.py file and replace the existing code with the following lines that declare many import statements and the DroneCategoryTests class. The code file for the sample is included in the hillar_django_restful_10_01 folder in the restful01/drones/tests.py file:

from django.utils.http import urlencode 
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse 
from rest_framework import status 
from rest_framework.test import APITestCase 
from drones.models import DroneCategory 
from drones import views 
 
 
class DroneCategoryTests(APITestCase): 
    def post_drone_category(self, name): 
        url = reverse(views.DroneCategoryList.name) 
        data = {'name': name} 
        response = self.client.post(url, data, format='json') 
        return response 
 
    def test_post_and_get_drone_category...