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Django Rest Framework DRF

Django REST framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs.

Features​

  1. Web browsable API
  2. Authentication policies
  3. Serialization

Commands​

pip install pygments # for code highlighting

# Set up a new project with a single application
django-admin.py startproject tutorial . # Note the trailing '.' character

cd tutorial
django-admin.py startapp quickstart

  1. Serialization

    Model Serializers

    class SnippetSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
        class Meta:
            model = Snippet
            fields = ('id', 'title', 'code', 'linenos', 'language', 'style')

    One nice property that serializers have is that you can inspect all the fields in a serializer instance, by printing its representation. Open the Django shell with python manage.py shell, then try the following:

    from snippets.serializers import SnippetSerializer
    serializer = SnippetSerializer()
    print(repr(serializer))

    HyperlinkedModelSerializer

  2. Requests &Responses

  3. Class-based views

  4. Authentication & Permissions

    https://nezhar.com/blog/django-rest-framework-permissions-in-depth

  5. Relationships & hyperlinked APIs

  6. Viewsets & routers

  7. Schemas & client libraries

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLxk3TkuAYnrO32ABtQyw2hLRWt1BUrhj