Django RESTful Web Services: The easiest way to build Python RESTful APIs and web services with Django

Django RESTful Web Services
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Installing the Required Software and Tools
Creating a virtual environment with Python 3.x and PEP 405
Understanding the directory structure for a virtual environment
Activating the virtual environment
Deactivating the virtual environment
Installing Django and Django REST frameworks in an isolated environment
Creating an app with Django
Understanding Django folders, files, and configurations
Installing tools
Installing Curl
Installing HTTPie
Installing the Postman REST client
Installing Stoplight
Installing iCurlHTTP
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Working with Models, Migrations, Serialization, and Deserialization
Defining the requirements for our first RESTful Web Service
Creating our first model
Running our initial migration
Understanding migrations
Analyzing the database
Understanding the table generated by Django
Controlling, serialization, and deserialization
Working with the Django shell and diving deeply into serialization and deserialization
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Creating API Views
Creating Django views combined with serializer classes
Understanding CRUD operations with Django views and the request methods
Routing URLs to Django views and functions
Launching Django's development server
Making HTTP GET requests that target a collection of instances
Making HTTP GET requests that target a single instance
Making HTTP POST requests
Making HTTP PUT requests
Making HTTP DELETE requests
Making HTTP GET requests with Postman
Making HTTP POST requests with Postman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Automating Tests
Getting ready for unit testing with pytest
Writing unit tests for a RESTful Web Service
Discovering and running unit tests with pytest
Writing new unit tests to improve the tests' code coverage
Running unit tests again with pytest
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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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