Building APIs with Django and Django Rest Framework

Building APIs with Django and DRF takes over where the Django tutorials stop. In the Django tutorials, you built a regular Django polls app. We will rebuild an API for a similar app.

In the chapters to come, we will build a REST(ish) api with authorization, rate limiting, first with pure Django and then with DRF. We will cover testing, continuous integration, documentation tools and API collaboration tools.

Chapters:

• Introductions
  • Who is this book for?
  • How to read this book?
• Setup, Models and Admin
  • Creating a project
  • Database setup
  • Creating models
  • Activating models
• A simple API with pure Django
  • The endpoints and the URLS
  • Connecting urls to the views
  • Writing the views
  • Using the API
  • Why do we need DRF?
• Serializing and Deserializing Data
  • Serialization and Deserialization
  • Creating Serializers
  • The PollSerializer in detail
  • Using the PollSerializer
• Views and Generic Views
  • Creating Views with APIView
  • Using DRF generic views to simplify code
  • More generic views
  • Next Steps
• More views and viewsets
  • A better URL structure
  • Changing the views
  • Introducing Viewsets and Routers
  • Choosing the base class to use
  • Next steps
• Access Control
  • Creating a user
  • Authentication scheme setup
  • The login API
  • Fine grained access control
  • Next steps:
• Testing and Continuous Integeration
  • Creating Test Requests
  • Testing APIs with authentication
  • Using APIClient
  • .post and create
  • Continuous integration with CircleCI
  • Setting up CircleCI
  • Writing circle configuration file

Appendix

• Testing and Using API with Postman
  • Making HTTP request
  • Response
  • Collections
  • Authentication
• Documenting APIs (with Swagger and more)
  • Adding swagger documentation
  • Using coreapi for documentation

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page