Django RESTful Web Services
The easiest way to build Python RESTful APIs and web services with Django
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
- Preface
- Installing the Required Software and Tools
- Working with Models, Migrations, Serialization, and Deserialization
- Defining the requirements for our first RESTful Web Service
- Creating our first model
- Running our initial migration
- Analyzing the database
- Controlling, serialization, and deserialization
- Working with the Django shell and diving deeply into serialization and deserialization
- Test your knowledge
- Summary
- Creating API Views
- Using Generalized Behavior from the APIView Class
- Taking advantage of model serializers
- Understanding accepted and returned content types
- Making unsupported HTTP OPTIONS requests with command-line tools
- Understanding decorators that work as wrappers
- Using decorators to enable different parsers and renderers
- Taking advantage of content negotiation classes
- Making supported HTTP OPTIONS requests with command-line tools
- Working with different content types
- Sending HTTP requests with unsupported HTTP verbs
- Test your knowledge
- Summary
- Understanding and Customizing the Browsable API Feature
- Understanding the possibility of rendering text/HTML content
- Using a web browser to work with our web service
- Making HTTP GET requests with the browsable API
- Making HTTP POST requests with the browsable API
- Making HTTP PUT requests with the browsable API
- Making HTTP OPTIONS requests with the browsable API
- Making HTTP DELETE requests with the browsable API
- Test your knowledge
- Summary
- Working with Advanced Relationships and Serialization
- Defining the requirements for a complex RESTful Web Service
- Creating a new app with Django
- Configuring a new web service
- Defining many-to-one relationships with models.ForeignKey
- Installing PostgreSQL
- Running migrations that generate relationships
- Analyzing the database
- Configuring serialization and deserialization with relationships
- Defining hyperlinks with serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer
- Working with class-based views
- Taking advantage of generic classes and viewsets
- Generalizing and mixing behavior
- Working with routing and endpoints
- Making requests that interact with resources that have relationships
- Test your knowledge
- Summary
- Using Constraints, Filtering, Searching, Ordering, and Pagination
- Browsing the API with resources and relationships
- Defining unique constraints
- Working with unique constraints
- Understanding pagination
- Configuring pagination classes
- Making requests that paginate results
- Working with customized pagination classes
- Making requests that use customized paginated results
- Configuring filter backend classes
- Adding filtering, searching, and ordering
- Working with different types of Django filters
- Making requests that filter results
- Composing requests that filter and order results
- Making requests that perform starts with searches
- Using the browsable API to test pagination, filtering, searching, and ordering
- Test your knowledge
- Summary
- Securing the API with Authentication and Permissions
- Understanding authentication and permissions in Django, the Django REST framework, and RESTful Web Services
- Learning about the authentication classes
- Including security and permissions-related data to models
- Working with object-level permissions via customized permission classes
- Saving information about users that make requests
- Setting permission policies
- Creating the superuser for Django
- Creating a user for Django
- Making authenticated requests
- Making authenticated HTTP PATCH requests with Postman
- Browsing the secured API with the required authentication
- Working with token-based authentication
- Generating and using tokens
- Test your knowledge
- Summary
- Applying Throttling Rules and Versioning Management
- Understanding the importance of throttling rules
- Learning the purpose of the different throttling classes in the Django REST framework
- Configuring throttling policies in the Django REST framework
- Running tests to check that throttling policies work as expected
- Understanding versioning classes
- Configuring a versioning scheme
- Running tests to check that versioning works as expected
- Test your knowledge
- Summary
- Automating Tests
- Solutions
- Chapter 1: Installing the Required Software and Tools
- Chapter 2: Working with Models, Migrations, Serialization, and Deserialization
- Chapter 3: Creating API Views
- Chapter 4: Using Generalized Behavior from the APIView Class
- Chapter 5: Understanding and Customizing the Browsable API Feature
- Chapter 6: Working with Advanced Relationships and Serialization
- Chapter 7: Using Constraints, Filtering, Searching, Ordering, and Pagination
- Chapter 8: Securing the API with Authentication and Permissions
- Chapter 9: Applying Throttling Rules and Versioning Management
- Chapter 10: Automating Tests
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