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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

Discovering and running unit tests with pytest

Now, go to the restful01 folder that contains the manage.py file, with the virtual environment activated, and run the following command:

pytest

The pytest command and the Django REST framework will perform the following actions:

  1. Create a clean test database name test_drones.
  2. Run all the migrations required for the database.
  3. Discover the tests that have to be executed based on the settings specified in the pytest.ini file.
  4. Run all the methods whose name starts with the test_ prefix in the DroneCategoryTests class and display the results. We declared this class in the tests.py file and it matches the pattern specified for the python_files setting in the pytest.ini file.
  5. Drop the test database named test_drones.
It is very important to know that the tests won't make changes to the database we have been using when working with...
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