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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

Defining the requirements for a complex RESTful Web Service


So far, our RESTful Web Service performed CRUD operations on a single database table. Now, we want to create a more complex RESTful Web Service with the Django REST framework to interact with a complex database model.

A drone is an IoT (short for Internet of Things) device that interacts with many sensors and actuators, including digital electronic speed controllers linked to engines, propellers, and sensors. A drone is also known as an Unnamed Aerial Vehicle (UAV). We will code a RESTful Web Service that will allow us to register competitions for drones that are grouped into drone categories. In our previous RESTful Web Service, we had toys grouped in toy categories and we used a string field to specify the toy category for a toy. In this case, we want to be able to easily retrieve all the drones that belong to a specific drone category. Thus, we will have a relationship between a drone and a drone category.

We must be able to perform...

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