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Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services

You're reading from   Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services Develop RESTful web services or APIs with modern Python 3.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789532227
Length 500 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Developing RESTful APIs and Microservices with Flask 1.0.2 FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Models, SQLAlchemy, and Hyperlinked APIs in Flask 3. Improving Our API and Adding Authentication to it with Flask 4. Testing and Deploying an API in a Microservice with Flask 5. Developing RESTful APIs with Django 2.1 6. Working with Class-Based Views and Hyperlinked APIs in Django 2.1 7. Improving Our API and Adding Authentication to it with Django 8. Throttling, Filtering, Testing, and Deploying an API with Django 2.1 9. Developing RESTful APIs with Pyramid 1.10 10. Developing RESTful APIs with Tornado 5.1.1 11. Working with Asynchronous Code, Testing, and Deploying an API with Tornado 12. Assessment 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Improving unique constraints in the models

When we coded the NotificationCategory model in the previous chapter, we specified the True value for the unique argument in the creation of the orm.Column instance named name. As a result, the migrations process generated the necessary unique constraint to make sure that the name field has unique values in the notification_category table. This way, the PostgreSQL database won't allow us to insert duplicate values for the notification_category.name column. However, the error message generated when we try to do so is not clear. The message includes details about the database structure that shouldn't be mentioned in the error message.

Run the following command to create a category with a duplicate name. There is already an existing category with the name equal to 'Warning'. The code file for the sample is included in...

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