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Django RESTful Web Services

You're reading from  Django RESTful Web Services

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788833929
Pages 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters close

Title Page
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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 1. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding filtering, searching, and ordering


Now, we will add the necessary code to configure the fields that we want to be included in the filtering, searching, and ordering features for each of the class-based views that retrieve the contents of each resource collection. Hence, we will make changes to all the classes with the List suffix in the views.py file: DroneCategoryList, DroneList, PilotList, and CompetitionList.

We will declare the following three class attributes in each of those classes:

  • filter_fields: This attribute specifies a tuple of strings whose values indicate the field names that we want to be able to filter against. Under the hood, the Django REST framework will automatically create a rest_framework.filters.FilterSet class and associate it to the class-based view in which we are declaring the attribute. We will be able to filter against the field names included in the tuple of strings.
  • search_fields: This attribute specifies a tuple of strings whose values indicate the text...
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