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# Quickstart
We're going to create a simple API to allow admin users to view and edit the users and groups in the system.
## Project setup
Create a new Django project named `tutorial`, then start a new app called `quickstart`.
# Set up a new project
django-admin.py startproject tutorial
cd tutorial
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# Create a virtualenv to isolate our package dependencies locally
virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate # On Windows use `env\Scripts\activate`
# Install Django and Django REST framework into the virtualenv
pip install django
pip install djangorestframework
# Create a new app
python manage.py startapp quickstart
Next you'll need to get a database set up and synced. If you just want to use SQLite for now, then you'll want to edit your `tutorial/settings.py` module to include something like this:
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'database.sql',
'USER': '',
'PASSWORD': '',
'HOST': '',
'PORT': ''
}
}
The run `syncdb` like so:
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python manage.py syncdb
Once you've set up a database and got everything synced and ready to go, open up the app's directory and we'll get coding...
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## Serializers
First up we're going to define some serializers in `quickstart/serializers.py` that we'll use for our data representations.
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from django.contrib.auth.models import User, Group
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from rest_framework import serializers
class UserSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = User
fields = ('url', 'username', 'email', 'groups')
class GroupSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = Group
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fields = ('url', 'name')
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Notice that we're using hyperlinked relations in this case, with `HyperlinkedModelSerializer`. You can also use primary key and various other relationships, but hyperlinking is good RESTful design.
## Views
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Right, we'd better write some views then. Open `quickstart/views.py` and get typing.
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from django.contrib.auth.models import User, Group
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from rest_framework import viewsets
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from quickstart.serializers import UserSerializer, GroupSerializer
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class UserViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
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"""
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API endpoint that allows users to be viewed or edited.
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"""
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queryset = User.objects.all()
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serializer_class = UserSerializer
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class GroupViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
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"""
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API endpoint that allows groups to be viewed or edited.
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"""
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queryset = Group.objects.all()
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serializer_class = GroupSerializer
Rather than write multiple views we're grouping together all the common behavior into classes called `ViewSets`.
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We can easily break these down into individual views if we need to, but using viewsets keeps the view logic nicely organized as well as being very concise.
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Notice that our viewset classes here are a little different from those in the [frontpage example][readme-example-api], as they include `queryset` and `serializer_class` attributes, instead of a `model` attribute.
For trivial cases you can simply set a `model` attribute on the `ViewSet` class and the serializer and queryset will be automatically generated for you. Setting the `queryset` and/or `serializer_class` attributes gives you more explicit control of the API behaviour, and is the recommended style for most applications.
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## URLs
Okay, now let's wire up the API URLs. On to `tutorial/urls.py`...
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from django.conf.urls import patterns, url, include
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from rest_framework import routers
from quickstart import views
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router = routers.DefaultRouter()
router.register(r'users', views.UserViewSet)
router.register(r'groups', views.GroupViewSet)
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# Wire up our API using automatic URL routing.
# Additionally, we include login URLs for the browseable API.
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^', include(router.urls)),
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url(r'^api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls', namespace='rest_framework'))
)
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Because we're using viewsets instead of views, we can automatically generate the URL conf for our API, by simply registering the viewsets with a router class.
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Again, if we need more control over the API URLs we can simply drop down to using regular class based views, and writing the URL conf explicitly.
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Finally, we're including default login and logout views for use with the browsable API. That's optional, but useful if your API requires authentication and you want to use the browsable API.
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## Settings
We'd also like to set a few global settings. We'd like to turn on pagination, and we want our API to only be accessible to admin users. The settings module will be in `tutorial/settings.py`
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INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'rest_framework',
)
REST_FRAMEWORK = {
'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': ('rest_framework.permissions.IsAdminUser',),
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'PAGINATE_BY': 10
}
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Okay, we're done.
---
## Testing our API
We're now ready to test the API we've built. Let's fire up the server from the command line.
python ./manage.py runserver
We can now access our API, both from the command-line, using tools like `curl`...
bash: curl -H 'Accept: application/json; indent=4' -u admin:password http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/
{
"count": 2,
"next": null,
"previous": null,
"results": [
{
"email": "admin@example.com",
"groups": [],
"url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/1/",
"username": "admin"
},
{
"email": "tom@example.com",
"groups": [ ],
"url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/2/",
"username": "tom"
}
]
}
Or directly through the browser...
![Quick start image][image]
Great, that was easy!
If you want to get a more in depth understanding of how REST framework fits together head on over to [the tutorial][tutorial], or start browsing the [API guide][guide].
[readme-example-api]: ../#example
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[image]: ../img/quickstart.png
[tutorial]: 1-serialization.md
[guide]: ../#api-guide