Search icon
Arrow left icon
All Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Newsletters
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
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

Filtering, searching, and ordering in the Browsable API


We can take advantage of the browsable API to easily test filter, search, and order features through a web browser. Open a web browser and enter http://localhost:8000/player-scores/. In case you use another computer or device to run the browser, replace localhost with the IP of the computer that is running the Django development server. The browsable API will compose and send a GET request to /player-scores/ and will display the results of its execution, that is, the headers and the JSON player scores list. You will notice that there is a new Filters button located on the left-hand side of the OPTIONS button.

Click on Filters and the browsable API will display the Filters dialog box with the appropriate controls for each filter that you can apply below Field Filters and the different ordering options below Ordering. The following screenshot shows the Filters dialog box:

Both the Player name and Game name dropdowns will only include...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $15.99/month. Cancel anytime}