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Django RESTful Web Services

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Published in Jan 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788833929

Pages 326 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Gaston C. Hillar

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

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Preface

1. Installing the Required Software and Tools

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

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Defining the requirements for our first RESTful Web Service

Imagine a team of developers working on a mobile app for iOS and Android and requires a RESTful Web Service to perform CRUD operations with toys. We definitely don't want to use a mock web service and we don't want to spend time choosing and configuring an ORM (short for Object-Relational Mapping). We want to quickly build a RESTful Web Service and have it ready as soon as possible to start interacting with it in the mobile app.

We really want the toys to persist in a database but we don't need it to be production-ready. Therefore, we can use the simplest possible relational database, as long as we don't have to spend time performing complex installations or configurations.

Django REST framework, also known as DRF, will allow us to easily accomplish this task and start making HTTP requests to the first version of our RESTful Web Service. In this case, we will work with a very simple SQLite database, the default database for a new...

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Authors (1)

Gaston C. Hillar

Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.

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