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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

Setting permission policies


We will configure permission policies for the class-based views that work with the Drone model. We will override the value for the permission_classes class attribute for the DroneDetail and DroneList classes.

We will add the same lines of code in the two classes. We will include the IsAuthenticatedOrReadOnly class and our recently declared IsCurrentUserOwnerOrReadOnly permission class in the permission_classes tuple.

Open the restful01/drones/views.py file and add the following lines after the last line that declares the imports, before the declaration of the DroneCategorySerializer class:

from rest_framework import permissions 
from drones import custompermission 

Replace the code that declares the DroneDetail class with the following code in the same views.py file. The new lines are highlighted in the code listing. The code file for the sample is included in the hillar_django_restful_08_01 folder, in the restful01/drones/views.py file:

class DroneDetail(generics...
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