Summary

In this chapter, we executed our first version of a simple Django RESTful Web Service that interacts with an SQLite database. We wrote API views to process diverse HTTP requests on a collection of toys and on a specific toy. We worked with the following HTTP verbs: GET, POST, and PUT. We configured the URL patterns list to route URLs to views.

Then, we started the Django development server and we used command-line tools (curl and HTTPie) to compose and send diverse HTTP requests to our RESTful Web Service. We learned how HTTP requests were processed in Django and our code. Finally, we worked with Postman, a GUI tool, to compose and send other HTTP requests to our RESTful Web Service.

Now that we understand the basics of a RESTful Web Service with Django REST framework and a simple SQLite database, we will work with a seriously powerful PostgreSQL database, use class-based views instead of function views, and we will take advantage of advanced features included in Django REST framework...