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Learn Web Development with Python

You're reading from   Learn Web Development with Python Get hands-on with Python Programming and Django web development

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Published in Dec 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789953299
Length 796 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fabrizio Romano Fabrizio Romano
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Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
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Arun Ravindran Arun Ravindran
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Table of Contents (33) Chapters Close

Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. A Gentle Introduction to Python FREE CHAPTER 2. Built-in Data Types 3. Iterating and Making Decisions 4. Functions, the Building Blocks of Code 5. Saving Time and Memory 6. OOP, Decorators, and Iterators 7. Files and Data Persistence 8. Testing, Profiling, and Dealing with Exceptions 9. Concurrent Execution 10. Debugging and Troubleshooting 11. Installing the Required Software and Tools 12. Working with Models, Migrations, Serialization, and Deserialization 13. Creating API Views 14. Using Generalized Behavior from the APIView Class 15. Understanding and Customizing the Browsable API Feature 16. Using Constraints, Filtering, Searching, Ordering, and Pagination 17. Securing the API with Authentication and Permissions 18. Applying Throttling Rules and Versioning Management 19. Automating Tests 20. Solutions 21. Templates 22. Admin Interface 23. Forms 24. Security 25. Working Asynchronously 26. Creating APIs 27. Production-Ready 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Adding filtering, searching, and ordering


Now, we will add the necessary code to configure the fields that we want to be included in the filtering, searching, and ordering features for each of the class-based views that retrieve the contents of each resource collection. Hence, we will make changes to all the classes with the List suffix in the views.py file: DroneCategoryList, DroneList, PilotList, and CompetitionList.

We will declare the following three class attributes in each of those classes:

  • filter_fields: This attribute specifies a tuple of strings whose values indicate the field names that we want to be able to filter against. Under the hood, the Django REST framework will automatically create a rest_framework.filters.FilterSet class and associate it to the class-based view in which we are declaring the attribute. We will be able to filter against the field names included in the tuple of strings.
  • search_fields: This attribute specifies a tuple of strings whose values indicate the text...
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