Building RESTful Python web services create web services that are lightweight, maintainable, scalable, and secure using the best tools and techniques designed for Python

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Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Developing RESTful APIs with Django
	Designing a RESTful API to interact with a simple SQLite database
	Understanding the tasks performed by each HTTP method
	Working with lightweight virtual environments
	Setting up the virtual environment with Django REST framework
	Creating the models
	Managing serialization and deserialization
	Writing API views
	Making HTTP requests to the API
		Working with command-line tools – curl and httpie
		Working with GUI tools – Postman and others
	Test your knowledge
	Summary
Chapter 2: Working with Class-Based Views and Hyperlinked APIs in Django
	Using model serializers to eliminate duplicate code
	Working with wrappers to write API views
	Using the default parsing and rendering options and move beyond JSON
	Browsing the API
	Designing a RESTful API to interact with a complex PostgreSQL database
	Understanding the tasks performed by each HTTP method
	Declaring relationships with the models
	Managing serialization and deserialization with relationships and hyperlinks
	Creating class-based views and using generic classes
	Taking advantage of generic class based views
	Working with endpoints for the API
	Creating and retrieving related resources
	Test your knowledge
	Summary
Chapter 3: Improving and Adding Authentication to an API With Django
	Adding unique constraints to the models
	Updating a single field for a resource with the PATCH method
	Taking advantage of pagination
	Customizing pagination classes
	Understanding authentication, permissions and throttling
	Adding security-related data to the models
	Creating a customized permission class for object-level permissions
	Persisting the user that makes a request
	Configuring permission policies
	Setting a default value for a new required field in migrations
	Composing requests with the necessary authentication
	Browsing the API with authentication credentials
	Test your knowledge
	Summary
Chapter 4: Throttling, Filtering, Testing, and Deploying an API with Django
	Understanding throttling classes
	Configuring throttling policies
	Testing throttling policies
	Understanding filtering, searching, and ordering classes
	Configuring filtering, searching, and ordering for views
	Testing filtering, searching, and ordering
	Filtering, searching, and ordering in the Browsable API
	Setting up unit tests
	Writing a first round of unit tests
	Running unit tests and checking testing coverage
	Improving testing coverage
	Understanding strategies for deployments and scalability
	Test your knowledge
	Summary
Chapter 5: Developing RESTful APIs with Flask
	Designing a RESTful API to interact with a simple data source
	Understanding the tasks performed by each HTTP method
	Setting up a virtual environment with Flask and Flask-RESTful
	Declaring status codes for the responses
	Creating the model
	Using a dictionary as a repository
	Configuring output fields
	Working with resourceful routing on top of Flask pluggable views
	Configuring resource routing and endpoints
	Making HTTP requests to the Flask API
		Working with command-line tools – curl and httpie
		Working with GUI tools – Postman and others
	Test your knowledge
	Summary
Chapter 6: Working with Models, SQLAlchemy, and Hyperlinked APIs in Flask
	Designing a RESTful API to interact with a PostgreSQL database
	Understanding the tasks performed by each HTTP method
	Installing packages to simplify our common tasks
	Creating and configuring the database
	Creating models with their relationships
	Creating schemas to validate, serialize, and deserialize models
	Combining blueprints with resourceful routing
	Registering the blueprint and running migrations
	Creating and retrieving related resources
	Test your knowledge
	Summary
Chapter 7: Improving and Adding Authentication to an API with Flask
	Improving unique constraints in the models
	Updating fields for a resource with the PATCH method
	Coding a generic pagination class
	Adding pagination features
	Understanding the steps to add authentication and permissions
	Adding a user model
	Creating a schemas to validate, serialize, and deserialize users
	Adding authentication to resources
	Creating resource classes to handle users
	Running migrations to generate the user table
	Composing requests with the necessary authentication
	Test your knowledge
	Summary
Chapter 8: Testing and Deploying an API with Flask
	Setting up unit tests
	Writing a first round of unit tests
	Running unit tests with nose2 and checking testing coverage
	Improving testing coverage
	Understanding strategies for deployments and scalability
	Test your knowledge
	Summary
Chapter 9: Developing RESTful APIs with Tornado
	Designing a RESTful API to interact with slow sensors and actuators
	Understanding the tasks performed by each HTTP method
	Setting up a virtual environment with Tornado
	Declaring status codes for the responses
	Creating the classes that represent a drone
	Writing request handlers
	Mapping URL patterns to request handlers
	Making HTTP requests to the Tornado API
		Working with command-line tools – curl and httpie
		Working with GUI tools – Postman and others
	Test your knowledge
	Summary
Chapter 10: Working with Asynchronous Code, Testing, and Deploying an API with Tornado
	Understanding synchronous and asynchronous execution
	Refactoring code to take advantage of asynchronous decorators
	Mapping URL patterns to asynchronous request handlers
	Making HTTP requests to the Tornado non-blocking API
	Setting up unit tests
	Writing a first round of unit tests
	Running unit tests with nose2 and checking testing coverage
	Improving testing coverage
	Other Python Web frameworks for building RESTful APIs
	Test your knowledge
	Summary
Appendix: Exercise Answers
	Chapter 1, Developing RESTful APIs with Django
	Chapter 2, Working with Class-Based Views and Hyperlinked APIs in Django
	Chapter 3, Improving and Adding Authentication to an API With Django
	Chapter 4, Throttling, Filtering, Testing, and Deploying an API with Django
	Chapter 5, Developing RESTful APIs with Flask
	Chapter 6, Working with Models, SQLAlchemy, and Hyperlinked APIs in Flask
	Chapter 7, Improving and Adding Authentication to an API with Flask
	Chapter 8, Testing and Deploying an API with Flask
	Chapter 9, Developing RESTful APIs with Tornado
	Chapter 10, Working with Asynchronous Code, Testing, and Deploying an API with Tornado
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