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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

Taking advantage of pagination


Our database has a few rows in each of the tables that persist the models we have defined. However, after we start working with our API in a real-life production environment, we will have thousands of player scores, players, games, and game categories, and therefore, we will have to deal with large result sets. We can take advantage of the pagination features available in Django REST Framework to make it easy to specify how we want large results sets to be split into individual pages of data.

First, we will compose and send HTTP requests to create 10 games that belong to one of the categories we have created: 2D mobile arcade. This way, we will have a total of 12 games that persist in the database. We had 2 games and we will add 10 more:

http POST :8000/games/ name='Tetris Reloaded' game_category='2D mobile arcade' played=false release_date='2016-06-21T03:02:00.776594Z'
http POST :8000/games/ name='Puzzle Craft' game_category='2D mobile arcade' played=false...
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