Building RESTful Web APIs with Django

Learn how to build a RESTful web API using the Django REST framework.

Introduction

• Create a REST API with Django and Django REST framework
• What you should know
• Demo project overview

1. Serializing, Listing, Filtering, and Paginating Models

• 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

2. Create, Retrieve, Update, and Delete (CRUD) Operations for Models

• 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

3. Managing Serializer Fields, Relations, and Validation

• 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

4. Testing API Views

• 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

Conclusion

• Next steps