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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

Adding unique constraints to the models


Our API has a few issues that we need to solve. Right now, it is possible to create many game categories with the same name. We shouldn't be able to do so, and therefore, we will make the necessary changes to the GameCategory model to add a unique constraint on the name field. We will also add a unique constraint on the name field for the Game and Player models. This way, we will learn the necessary steps to make changes to the constraints for many models and reflect the changes in the underlying database through migrations.

Make sure that you quit 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. Now, we will make changes to introduce unique constraints to the name field for the models that we use to represent and persist the game categories, games, and players. Open the games/models.py, file and replace the code that declares the GameCategory, Game and Player...

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