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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

Persisting the user that makes a request and configuring permission policies


We want to be able to list all the users and retrieve the details for a single user. We will create subclasses of the two following generic class views declared in the rest_framework.generics module:

  • ListAPIView: Implements the get method that retrieves a listing of  queryset
  • RetrieveAPIView: Implements the get method to retrieve a model instance

Open the views.py file in the games_service/games folder. Add the following code after the last line that declares the imports, before the declaration of the GameCategoryList class. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_2_07_04 folder, in the Django01/games-service/games/views.py file:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User 
from rest_framework import permissions 
from games.serializers import UserSerializer 
from games.customized_permissions import IsOwnerOrReadOnly 
 
 
class UserList(generics.ListAPIView): 
    queryset = User.objects.all()...
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