gaurav0401 / Working-with-Django-Rest-Framework

Working-with-Django-Rest-Framework

Django REST framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs.

There are six stages for building an API using Django Rest Framework

• Installing django and django rest framework.
• creating Models
• creating Serializers
• creating views
• creating urls
• Our API is ready

Step by step guide:

• Add 'rest_framework' in installed apps of settings.py

• Create a new app using 'django-admin startapp app1' and then that app in installed apps of settings.py.

• Create a new Model in models.py and add fields as your needs.

• Now create a new file named serializers.py in app folder and import your model here.

• create a serializer in serializers.py using Meta data of model:

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• Now import both model and serializer in views.py and create viewset of model:

• Now in urls.py of app import 'viewset' here and create a router using routers method of rest_framework

• Now register that router using url and viewset (i.e router.register(r"url", viewsetname))

• Now apply migrations

• Now run server using 'python manage.py runserver' and go to url which we created for router (i.e /companies in our case).