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Django RESTful Web Services

You're reading from   Django RESTful Web Services The easiest way to build Python RESTful APIs and web services with Django

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788833929
Length 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
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1. Installing the Required Software and Tools FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Models, Migrations, Serialization, and Deserialization 3. Creating API Views 4. Using Generalized Behavior from the APIView Class 5. Understanding and Customizing the Browsable API Feature 6. Working with Advanced Relationships and Serialization 7. Using Constraints, Filtering, Searching, Ordering, and Pagination 8. Securing the API with Authentication and Permissions 9. Applying Throttling Rules and Versioning Management 10. Automating Tests 11. Solutions 1. Other Books You May Enjoy

Defining hyperlinks with serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer


Now, add the following code to the serializers.py file to declare the DroneSerializer class. The code file for the sample is included in the hillar_django_restful_06_01 folder in the restful01/drones/serializers.py file:

class DroneSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer): 
    # Display the category name 
    drone_category = serializers.SlugRelatedField(queryset=DroneCategory.objects.all(), slug_field='name') 
 
    class Meta: 
        model = Drone 
        fields = ( 
            'url', 
            'name', 
            'drone_category', 
            'manufacturing_date', 
            'has_it_competed', 
            'inserted_timestamp') 

The DroneSerializer class is a subclass of the HyperlinkedModelSerializer class. The DroneSerializer class declares a drone_category attribute that holds an instance of serializers.SlugRelatedField with its queryset argument set to DroneCategory.objects.all() and its slug_field...

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