Hello_World

steps for Create Django REST API

1) Create project folder in directory

2) Create virtual environment in project folder location

  pip install virtualenv
      
  python3.6 -m venv venv
  
  source venv/bin/activate

3) install libraries

  pip install django
  
  pip install djangorestframework
  
  pip install django-rest-knox
  
  pip install django-filter

4) Create project

  django-admin startproject Website

5) register install app in setting.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'rest_framework',
'REST',
'django_filters'
]

6) Run server

 python manage.py runserver

7) Create App in project file

 django-admin startapp REST

8) run migration commad

  python3.6 manage.py migrate
  
  python3.6 manage.py makemigrations

9) Create Super user

  python3.6 manage.py createsuperuser
  
  python3.6 manage.py migrate

10) make two files in app folder

    urls.py
    
    serializer.py

11) open views.py in app Folder

    from rest_framework.response import Response
    from rest_framework import status
    from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404
    from rest_framework.views import APIView

    #Create your views here.


    class Person(APIView):
            def get(self, request, format=None):
                    message = {
                    'Response':200,
                    'Message' : 'Welcome to django rest API'
                    }
                    return Response(message)

12) open project urls.py file

   from django.contrib import admin
   from django.urls import path, include
   from django.urls import path, include

   urlpatterns = [
   path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
   path('', include('RESTAPI.urls')),
   
   ]

13) open app urls.py file

    from django.urls import path, include
    from django.conf.urls import url
    from rest_framework.urlpatterns import format_suffix_patterns
    from . import views

    urlpatterns = [
          path('', views.PersonView.as_view()),
         ]

14) define personView class in views.py