Building RESTful Python Web Services

封面

版权页

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewer

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Why subscribe?

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 1. Developing RESTful APIs with Django

Designing a RESTful API to interact with a simple SQLite database

Understanding the tasks performed by each HTTP method

Working with lightweight virtual environments

Setting up the virtual environment with Django REST framework

Creating the models

Managing serialization and deserialization

Writing API views

Making HTTP requests to the API

Test your knowledge

Summary

Chapter 2. Working with Class-Based Views and Hyperlinked APIs in Django

Using model serializers to eliminate duplicate code

Working with wrappers to write API views

Using the default parsing and rendering options and move beyond JSON

Browsing the API

Designing a RESTful API to interact with a complex PostgreSQL database

Understanding the tasks performed by each HTTP method

Declaring relationships with the models

Managing serialization and deserialization with relationships and hyperlinks

Creating class-based views and using generic classes

Taking advantage of generic class based views

Working with endpoints for the API

Creating and retrieving related resources

Test your knowledge

Summary

Chapter 3. Improving and Adding Authentication to an API With Django

Adding unique constraints to the models

Updating a single field for a resource with the PATCH method

Taking advantage of pagination

Customizing pagination classes

Understanding authentication permissions and throttling

Adding security-related data to the models

Creating a customized permission class for object-level permissions

Persisting the user that makes a request

Configuring permission policies

Setting a default value for a new required field in migrations

Composing requests with the necessary authentication

Browsing the API with authentication credentials

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Summary

Chapter 4. Throttling Filtering Testing and Deploying an API with Django

Understanding throttling classes

Configuring throttling policies

Testing throttling policies

Understanding filtering searching and ordering classes

Configuring filtering searching and ordering for views

Testing filtering searching and ordering

Filtering searching and ordering in the Browsable API

Setting up unit tests

Writing a first round of unit tests

Running unit tests and checking testing coverage

Improving testing coverage

Understanding strategies for deployments and scalability

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Summary

Chapter 5. Developing RESTful APIs with Flask

Designing a RESTful API to interact with a simple data source

Understanding the tasks performed by each HTTP method

Setting up a virtual environment with Flask and Flask-RESTful

Declaring status codes for the responses

Creating the model

Using a dictionary as a repository

Configuring output fields

Working with resourceful routing on top of Flask pluggable views

Configuring resource routing and endpoints

Making HTTP requests to the Flask API

Test your knowledge

Summary

Chapter 6. Working with Models SQLAlchemy and Hyperlinked APIs in Flask

Designing a RESTful API to interact with a PostgreSQL database

Understanding the tasks performed by each HTTP method

Installing packages to simplify our common tasks

Creating and configuring the database

Creating models with their relationships

Creating schemas to validate serialize and deserialize models

Combining blueprints with resourceful routing

Registering the blueprint and running migrations

Creating and retrieving related resources

Test your knowledge

Summary

Chapter 7. Improving and Adding Authentication to an API with Flask

Improving unique constraints in the models

Updating fields for a resource with the PATCH method

Coding a generic pagination class