Creating our first model

Now, we will create a simple Toy model in Django, which we will use to represent and persist toys. Open the toys/models.py file. The following lines show the initial code for this file with just one import statement and a comment that indicates we should create the models:

from django.db import models 
 
# Create your models here. 

The following lines show the new code that creates a Toy class, specifically, a Toy model in the toys/models.py file. The code file for the sample is included in the hillar_django_restful_02_01 folder in the restful01/toys/models.py file:

from django.db import models 
 
 
class Toy(models.Model): 
    created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) 
    name = models.CharField(max_length=150, blank=False, default='') 
    description = models.CharField(max_length=250, blank=True, default='') 
    toy_category = models.CharField(max_length=200, blank=False, default='') 
    release_date = models.DateTimeField() 
    was_included_in_home...