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Building RESTful Python Web Services

You're reading from  Building RESTful Python Web Services

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462251
Pages 418 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
Profile icon Gaston C. Hillar

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Building RESTful Python Web Services
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Developing RESTful APIs with Django 2. Working with Class-Based Views and Hyperlinked APIs in Django 3. Improving and Adding Authentication to an API With Django 4. Throttling, Filtering, Testing, and Deploying an API with Django 5. Developing RESTful APIs with Flask 6. Working with Models, SQLAlchemy, and Hyperlinked APIs in Flask 7. Improving and Adding Authentication to an API with Flask 8. Testing and Deploying an API with Flask 9. Developing RESTful APIs with Tornado 10. Working with Asynchronous Code, Testing, and Deploying an API with Tornado 11. Exercise Answers

Designing a RESTful API to interact with a complex PostgreSQL database


So far, our RESTful API has performed CRUD operations on a single database table. Now, we want to create a more complex RESTful API with Django REST Framework to interact with a complex database model that has to allow us to register player scores for played games that are grouped into game categories. In our previous RESTful API, we used a string field to specify the game category for a game. In this case, we want to be able to easily retrieve all the games that belong to a specific game category, and therefore, we will have a relationship between a game and a game category.

We should be able to perform CRUD operations on different related resources and resource collections. The following list enumerates the resources and the model names that we will use to represent them in Django REST Framework:

  • Game categories (GameCategory model)

  • Games (Game model)

  • Players (Player model)

  • Player scores (PlayerScore model)

The game category...

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