Learn Web Development with Python

Summary

In this chapter, we used the browsable API feature to navigate through the API with resources and relationships. We added unique constraints to improve consistency for the models in our RESTful Web Service.

We understood the importance of paginating results and we configured and tested a global limit/offset pagination scheme with the Django REST framework. Then, we created our own customized pagination class to make sure that requests weren't able to acquire a huge amount of elements in a single page.

We configured filter backend classes and we added code to the models to add filtering, searching, and ordering capabilities to the class-based views. We created a customized filter and we made requests to filter, search, and order results, ...