Using Tastypie to create an API

Tastypie is a framework for Django for creating a web service Application Program Interface (API). It supports the full set of HTTP protocol methods (GET/POST/PUT/DELETE/PATCH) to deal with online resources. It also supports different types of authentication and authorization, serialization, caching, throttling, and so on. In this recipe, you will learn how to provide bulletins to third parties for reading; that is, we will implement only the GET HTTP method here.

Getting ready

First of all, install tastypie in your virtual environment using the following command (or add to your requirements file for a Docker project):

(myproject_env)$ pip install django-tastypie~=0.14.0

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