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Django RESTful Web Services

You're reading from   Django RESTful Web Services The easiest way to build Python RESTful APIs and web services with Django

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788833929
Length 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
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Preface 1. Installing the Required Software and Tools FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Models, Migrations, Serialization, and Deserialization 3. Creating API Views 4. Using Generalized Behavior from the APIView Class 5. Understanding and Customizing the Browsable API Feature 6. Working with Advanced Relationships and Serialization 7. Using Constraints, Filtering, Searching, Ordering, and Pagination 8. Securing the API with Authentication and Permissions 9. Applying Throttling Rules and Versioning Management 10. Automating Tests 11. Solutions 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding versioning classes

Sometimes, we have to keep many different versions of a RESTful Web Service alive at the same time. For example, we might need to have version 1 and version 2 of our RESTful Web Service accepting and processing requests. There are many versioning schemes that make it possible to serve many versions of a web service.

The Django REST framework provides five classes in the rest_framework.versioning module. All of them are subclasses of the BaseVersioning class. The five classes allow us to work with a specific versioning scheme.

We can use one of these classes in combination with changes in the URL configurations and other pieces of code to support the selected versioning scheme. Each class is responsible for determining the version based on the implemented schema and to make sure that the specified version number is a valid one based on the allowed...

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