Building a RESTful API
When building an API, there are several ways you can structure its endpoints and actions, but following REST principles is encouraged. The REST architecture comes from Representational State Transfer. RESTful APIs are resource-based; your models represent resources and HTTP methods such as GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE are used to retrieve, create, update, or delete objects. HTTP response codes are also used in this context. Different HTTP response codes are returned to indicate the result of the HTTP request, for example, 2XX response codes for success, 4XX for errors, and so on.
The most common formats to exchange data in RESTful APIs are JSON and XML. You will build a RESTful API with JSON serialization for your project. Your API will provide the following functionality:
- Retrieve subjects
- Retrieve available courses
- Retrieve course contents
- Enroll on a course
You can build an API from scratch with Django by creating custom...
