polarpop/example-django-rest

Example API

This is a very simplistic API utilizing django and djangorestframework.

1. Create a abstract user model.
2. Create a location model.
3. Create a user serializer.
4. Create a location serializer.
5. Create a viewset for each serializer.
6. Create a default router with each viewset given a route.

Objectives

1. Give you a basic understanding of how django works.
2. Basic understanding of API's.

Assignment??? Nah, seriously homework???

1. Create an API client for both Users and Location.
2. Create permissions so only certain people can view users, or create users.
3. Connect to a different database besides SQLite

Resources

1. Rest Framework Permissions
2. HTTP Requests in Python
3. PostgreSQL

Installation & requirements

Requirements

Python 3.6>

Installation

Run the following commands
py -m "pip" install virtualenv
virtualenv myapp
cd myapp
Scripts\activate
pip install django djangorestframework django-cors-headers
git clone https://github.com/polarpop/example-django-rest example
cd example
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py loaddata initial
python manage.py runserver