Yatube API Educational Project

Are you kiddin' me? Another educational project?

Exactly! Implementation of REST API for a sample Django project using DRF. The task was to create an API based on redoc-based documentation from scratch: models, request routing, serialization, permissions, JWT, and so on.

After installation, you'll be able to read the docs and test the project, using a built-in web interface, or some kind of software (I would recommend PostMan)

Technology stack

• Python 3.7.13, Django 2.2.16, Django REST Framework 3.12.4, SimpleJWT 4.7.2, PyJWT 2.1.0, Djoser 2.1.0, Pillow 9.2.0, drf-yasg 1.21.4

Key points

• This implementation is built on viewsets.
• JWT tokens are used for authentication.
• Read-only access for unauthenticated users to all endpoints except for /follow/.
• Authenticated users are allowed to modify/delete their content, and read-only access in all other cases.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/holohup/yatube_api_en && cd yatube_api_en && ./yatube_api_install.sh

The project comes preloaded with some fixtures which are installed on the script execution. There's a registered admin user tester/tester, the admin web interface is accessible at http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/

You can register a new user from there, or use the admin credentials to get a token by sending a POST request to http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/jwt/create/ containing a JSON:

{
    "username": "string",
    "password": "string"
}

The JWT token will be under the key named "access". After that, set up your software to use it and explore the API at your will!

Every single Endpoint (how the project should work and how it does, on yes)

Choose a link to learn which requests it should accept, which responses it returns, and all the necessary details in a preferred format:

• A JSON view: http://127.0.0.1:8000/swagger.json
• A YAML view: http://127.0.0.1:8000/swagger.yaml
• A swagger-ui view: http://127.0.0.1:8000/swagger/
• A ReDoc view: http://127.0.0.1:8000/redoc/

How it works

sequenceDiagram
User ->> API: Would you please delete this post?
API ->> Server: Post deletion service needed immediately!
Server ->> Database: Delete the post ASAP! Code red!
Database ->> Server: Fixed :-Q
Server ->> API: The post has been deleted, what's next?
API ->> User: Oh mighty one! It's done, please accept this 204 status code.

Request examples

• get post comments

/api/v1/posts/{post_id}/comments/{id}/

Response:

{
-   "id": 0,   
-   "author": "string", 
-   "text": "string",  
-   "created": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",  
-   "post": 0
}

Feel free to send all allowed kinds of requests and test my solution back and forth!