Overview
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Learn how to build a RESTful web API using the Django REST framework.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Create a REST API with Django and Django REST framework
- What you should know
- Demo project overview
- Creating a Django Rest framework serializer to serialize a model
- Creating a ListAPIView subclass
- Connecting an APIView to a route
- Filter back ends with URL query parameters
- Enabling full-text search filter back end
- Enabling pagination of querysets in API responses
- Creating a CreateAPIView subclass
- Connecting a CreateAPIView to the router
- Creating a DestroyAPIView subclass
- Connecting a DestroyAPIView to the router
- Creating an UpdateAPIView subclass
- Connecting an UpdateAPIView to the router
- Serializer with only selected fields
- Serializer that shows model relationships
- Number fields with serializers
- Date and time fields with serializers
- Lists, dicts, and JSON objects
- Serializer with ImageField and FileField
- Test case for a CreateAPIView subclass
- Test case for a DestroyAPIView subclass
- Test case for a ListAPIView subclass
- Unit test for an UpdateAPIView subclass
- Handling image uploads in a unit test
- Next steps
