Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

Throttling, Filtering, Testing, and Deploying an API with Django 2.1

In this chapter, we will use additional features included in Django 2.1 and Django REST Framework to improve our RESTful API. We will also write, execute, and improve unit tests and learn a few things related to deployment. We will look at the following:

• Install packages with the requirements.txt file to work with filters, throttling, and tests
• Understand filtering, searching, and ordering classes
• Configure filtering, searching, and ordering for views
• Execute HTTP requests to test filtering, searching, and ordering features
• Filter, search, and order in the Browsable API
• Understand throttling classes and goals
• Configure throttling policies
• Execute HTTP requests to test throttle ...