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You're reading from Django RESTful Web Services The easiest way to build Python RESTful APIs and web services with Django

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788833929

Length 326 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Django

Concepts

Web Services

Author (1):

Gaston C. Hillar

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Installing the Required Software and Tools FREE CHAPTER

2. Working with Models, Migrations, Serialization, and Deserialization

3. Creating API Views

4. Using Generalized Behavior from the APIView Class

5. Understanding and Customizing the Browsable API Feature

6. Working with Advanced Relationships and Serialization

7. Using Constraints, Filtering, Searching, Ordering, and Pagination

8. Securing the API with Authentication and Permissions

9. Applying Throttling Rules and Versioning Management

10. Automating Tests

11. Solutions

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Configuring a new web service

We added a new Django app to our existing Django project. Use your favorite editor or IDE to check the Python code in the apps.py file within the restful01/drones folder (restful01\drones in Windows). The following lines show the code for this file:

from django.apps import AppConfig 
 
 
class DronesConfig(AppConfig): 
    name = 'drones'

The code declares the DronesConfig class as a subclass of the django.apps.AppConfig class that represents a Django application and its configuration. The DronesConfig class just defines the name class attribute and sets its value to 'drones'.

Now, we have to add drones.apps.DronesConfig as one of the installed apps in the restful01/settings.py file that configures settings for the restful01 Django project. I built the previous string by concatenating many values as follows: app name + .apps. + class name, which is, drones + .apps. + DronesConfig.