This project seeks to explain concepts about creation of APIs, using complex queries to optimize the time for our djaango project and reduce the SQL calls.
PS: In this project, we used the PostgreSQL database
In this project for the user to create an account, the user need to provide the email, password (and name which is optional) as opposed to the default way of creating users in using the django admin.
Also it allows us to create a superuser using this endpoint http://127.0.0.1:8000/gateway/register and selecting the following variables is_active, is_staff and is_superuser
To log a user in use the endpoint http://127.0.0.1:8000/gateway/login. This will lolog the user in ans ong as the correct email and password is supplied (and name which is optional).
Once the user logs in, two tokens are generated automatically, viz access token and the refresh token this tokens grants authorization for that user
Note After 5 minutes the access token will expire, hence the refresh token is supplied at this endpoint
http://127.0.0.1:8000/gateway/refreshto regenerate a newaccessandrefreshtoken
For a user to access the endpoint http://127.0.0.1:8000/gateway/secure using Postman to get a secured message, the user must send an authorized message from Postman using the access token as the bearer token. In our case here the secured the message is an ZeroDivisionError message
This involves uploading of pictures to properly identify the users. This can be done using the endpoint http://127.0.0.1/user-main/user-profile. This will push the imageb to a cloud storage known as CLOUDINARY. The setup can be seen in the sertings file.
We created an API that allows a user to create an even that will allow the user set the following variable such as
* address: The address of the event
* city
* country
* state
* author_id
* title
* description
* date
* time
* max_seat
* features which has a dictionary attribute feature_name
PS: This can only be done with the Postman and not the default Django REST Framework page
In creating this, if the previous instance of an address exist for a user it will be deleted and the newly inputted address will override the initial one. This was possible because we overrode the create method