Django REST API's with Django Rest Framework

• Django Docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/
• Django Rest Framework: https://www.django-rest-framework.org/

Included Projects

There are 3 different projects located in separated branch of this git repo. The installation and running instructions are located in the respective readme files.

1. django-library: A basic book library app with basic html template and DRF api backend
2. react-todo: React.js frontend powered by the django backend api
3. master or blog-api: A fully featured blog api powered by DRF

BLOG API

FEATURES

• Documentation with Swagger and Redoc
• Basic testing of models with built-in django testing
• Using Viewsets and Routers
• Token authentication and user registration

Installation

Note: Use requirements-dev.txt instead of requirements.txt if you need pylint, black, httpie etc.

• With pip
  • Windows

$ python -m venv .venv
$ .venv\Scripts\activate
$ python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

• Unix/Linux

$ python -m venv .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate
$ python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

• With Poetry

$ poetry install 

# Activates virtual environment
$ poetry shell

Running Projects

$ python manage.py migrate
$ python manage.py createsuperuser
$ python manage.py runserver

Navigate to the localhost:8000/api/v1/ and you should see post lists endpoint.

Also navigate to localhost:8000/admin/ and login for admin panel to easily create new users and posts.

Running Tests

$ python manage.py test

Access Docs

The swagger and redoc docs are hosted at localhost:8000/swagger/ or /redoc/ respectively.

You can also generate a schema yaml file

$ python manage.py generateschema > api-schema.yml

Accessing the API

Lets see how we can interact with a running api with httpie. (You may need to install it with pip install httpie)

# Registering user
$ http -f post localhost:8000/api/v1/user-auth/registration/ username='test' password1='testpass' password2='testpass'

# Generating token from existing user
$ http -f post localhost:8000/api/v1/user-auth/login/ username='httpie' password='httpiepass'

# Accesing list of users; REPLACE TOKEN FROM PREVIOUS COMMAND!
$ http get localhost:8000/api/v1/user/ AUTHORIZATION:'Token <previous command output key token here>'

# eg. 'Token c9892bb13fe57681a2687057eec4994b94ffd7a5'

# Create a post. You can view your author id with in previous users list
$ http -f post localhost:8000/api/v1/ author=2 title='HTTPIE' body='hello' AUTHORIZATION:'Token <TOKEN HERE>'

# Update a post
$ http -f put localhost:8000/api/v1/1/ author=2 title='Updated title' body='hello world' AUTHORIZATION:'Token <TOKEN HERE>'

REPL support

A django repl can be summoned using;

# For python REPL
$ python manage.py shell

# For database shell
$ python manage.py dbshell

For eg interacting with models

from posts.models import Post
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

#all_users
User.objects.all()

#all_posts
Post.objects.all()

# You can create update and delete posts and users from here as well