Django REST API Exercise

Introduction

This exercise is to practice the skills you learned about in the Building a Server Lab. See the submission section for more information about what you should submit for this lab assignment.

Specification

You should build a new API endpoint that allows an end user to create a new Dog model by making a POST to /api/dogs, view current dogs that have been saved to the server before by making a GET to /api/dogs, and get, modify, or delete an existing Dog record by making a GET, PUT, or DELETE request (respectively) to /api/dogs/<id> where <id> is the id of the Dog record to be retrieved, modified, or deleted. Since a Dog includes a foreign key to the breed, you also need to make the same type of endpoints for dog breed at /api/breeds/ and /api/breeds/<id>.

Dog model

A dog should contain the following fields:

• name (a character string)
• age (an integer)
• breed (a foreign key to the Breed Model)
• gender (a character string)
• color (a character string)
• favoritefood (a character string)
• favoritetoy (a character string)

Breed Model

A breed should contain the following fields:

• name (a character string)
• size (a character string) [should accept Tiny, Small, Medium, Large]
• friendliness (an integer field) [should accept values from 1-5]
• trainability (an integer field) [should accept values from 1-5]
• sheddingamount (an integer field) [should accept values from 1-5]
• exerciseneeds (an integer field) [should accept values from 1-5]

Todo List

To do this, do the following:

• track all of your changes using github. You can use the github repo you used for the webservice lab.
• add a Dog and Breed models to models.py
• migrate your database to include tables for Dog and Breed
• add a two class-based API view controllers for handling Dog REST endpoints to controllers.py
  • call one DogDetail and one DogList to conform to best practice nomenclature
  • The DogDetail class should have three methods named get, put, delete
  • The DogList class should have two methods named get and post
  • refer to http://www.django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/3-class-based-views/ for examples
• add a two class-based API view controllers for handling Breed REST endpoints to controllers.py
  • call one BreedDetail and one BreedList to conform to best practice nomenclature
  • The BreedDetail class should have three methods named get, put, delete
  • The BreedList class should have two methods named get and post
  • refer to http://www.django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/3-class-based-views/ for examples
• add the approrpriate url patterns to the urls.py file to accept all of the patterns and map them to the correct controller
• test your endpoints with POSTMAN, taking screenshots of each type of request. There should be 5 requests total for each type of model, for a total of 10 tests and screenshots.
  • GET (list), POST to /api/dogs/
  • GET, PUT, DELETE to /api/dogs/<id>
  • GET (list), POST to /api/breeds/
  • GET, PUT, DELETE to /api/breeds/<id>

Submission

Submit a link to canvas with a link to your github repository along with the screenshots showing that you tested each method type.