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Django RESTful Web Services

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788833929
Pages 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
Profile icon 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

Configuring pagination classes


The Django REST framework provides many options to enable pagination. First, we will set up one of the customizable pagination styles included in the Django REST framework to include a maximum of four resources in each individual page of data.

Our RESTful Web Service uses the generic views that work with mixin classes. These classes are prepared to build paginated responses based on specific settings in the Django REST framework configuration. Hence, our RESTful Web Service will automatically take into account the pagination settings we configured, without requiring additional changes in the code.

Open the restful01/restful01/settings.py file that declares module-level variables that define the configuration of Django for the restful01 project. We will make some changes to this Django settings file. The code file for the sample is included in the hillar_django_restful_07_01 folder, in the restful01/restful01/settings.py file. Add the following lines that declare...

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