Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

Developing RESTful APIs with Django 2.1

In this chapter, we will start working with Django and Django REST framework, and we will create a RESTful web API that performs CRUD operations on a simple SQLite database. We will do the following:

• Design a RESTful API to interact with a simple SQLite database
• Understand the tasks performed by each HTTP method
• Set up a virtual environment with Django REST framework
• Create models
• Manage serialization and deserialization
• Understand status codes for responses
• Write API views
• Make HTTP requests to the API with command-line tools
• Make HTTP requests to the API with GUI tools