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Building RESTful Python Web Services

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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

Understanding filtering, searching, and ordering classes


We took advantage of the pagination features available in Django REST Framework to specify how we wanted large results sets to be split into individual pages of data. However, we have always been working with the entire queryset as the result set. Django REST Framework makes it easy to customize filtering, searching, and sorting capabilities to the views we have already coded.

First, we will install the django-filter package in our virtual environment. This way, we will be able to use field filtering features that we can easily customize in Django REST Framework. Make sure that you quit the Django's development server. Remember that you just need to press Ctrl + C in the terminal or Command Prompt window in which it is running. Then, we just need to run the following command to install the django-filter package:

pip install django-filter

The last lines for the output will indicate that the django-filter package has been successfully...

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