Building RESTful Python Web Services

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

In this chapter, we will use the additional features included in Django and Django REST Framework to improve our RESTful API. We will also write and execute unit tests and learn a few things related to deployment. We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

• Understanding throttling classes
• Configuring throttling policies
• Testing throttle policies
• Understanding filtering, searching and ordering classes
• Configuring filtering, searching, and ordering for views
• Testing filtering, searching and ordering features
• Filter, search, and order in the browsable API
• Writing a first round of unit tests
• Running unit tests and checking testing coverage
• Improving testing coverage
• Understanding ...