Django Rest Framework | How to Create a RESTful API Using Django | Django Tutorial | Edureka
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The document provides an introduction to APIs, specifically REST APIs, and outlines their architecture and functionality. It details the installation of the Django REST framework and demonstrates creating a simple RESTful API project. Key concepts include defining APIs, using HTTP methods, and the format of data exchanged through APIs.
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What is a REST API?
When Web services use REST architecture, they are called RESTful APIs or REST APIs.
A REST API is a set of web addresses that respond with pure information, not a formatted web page.
An Api returns a JSON, which is a common format. You'll see all of the information surrounded with
quotation marks, {}, [] and descriptive titles for each bit of info.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/djangorestframework-171006061837/85/Django-Rest-Framework-How-to-Create-a-RESTful-API-Using-Django-Django-Tutorial-Edureka-8-320.jpg)
Django Rest Framework | How to Create a RESTful API Using Django | Django Tutorial | Edureka
- 1. Copyright © 2017, edureka and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
- 2. Copyright © 2017, edureka and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda ✓ What is an API? ✓ Introduction to Rest Framework ✓ What is a REST API? ✓ Demo – Create a Restful API
- 3. Copyright © 2017, edureka and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda What is an API? Demo – Create a RESTful Api What is REST API? Introduction to REST Framework 1 4 3 2
- 4. Copyright © 2017, edureka and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. What is an API?
- 5. Copyright © 2017, edureka and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. What is an API? API refers to Application Programming Interface. It is a set of subroutine definitions, protocols and tools for building application software. It helps in connecting various software components. An API make it easier for developers to use certain technologies in building applications by using certain predefined operations.
- 6. Copyright © 2017, edureka and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Introduction to REST Framework
- 7. Copyright © 2017, edureka and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. REST Framework ✓ It describes an architecture which stands for REpresentational State Transfer ✓ It is used for web based architecture for data communication. ✓ It uses HTTP to make calls between machines. The following HTTP methods are most commonly used in a REST based architecture: GET POSTDELETEPUT
- 8. Copyright © 2017, edureka and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. What is a REST API? When Web services use REST architecture, they are called RESTful APIs or REST APIs. A REST API is a set of web addresses that respond with pure information, not a formatted web page. An Api returns a JSON, which is a common format. You'll see all of the information surrounded with quotation marks, {}, [] and descriptive titles for each bit of info.
- 9. Copyright © 2017, edureka and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Installation Now, let’s install Django REST Framework
- 10. Copyright © 2017, edureka and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Installation Rest framework can be installed on the system using Python’s package manager. ▪ You must have python and pip, python’s package manager installed beforehand ▪ Open the terminal and type the following command for Django installation. pip install djangorestframework
- 11. Copyright © 2017, edureka and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Installation INSTALLED_APPS = ( … ‘rest_framework’, ) Once its done, add ‘rest_framework’ to your INSTALLED_APPS setting.
- 12. Copyright © 2017, edureka and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Demo Now, let’s create your first RESTful Api in Django
- 13. Copyright © 2017, edureka and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Create a Project $ django-admin startproject myproject Open the terminal and navigate to the folder where the project is to be created. Myproject/ manage.py myproject/ __init__.py settings.py urls.py wsgi.py This will create a "myproject" folder with the following structure: 1 2
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