Book-Review-Api

• Book Review Api: Django Rest Framework with Faker and Requests Library
• Models: Book, Comment, User
• API Endpoints:
  • api/book-view
  • api/book-view/{bookId}
  • api/comment-view/{commentId}
  • api/book-view/{bookId}/comment
• Built-in sqlite database is NOT populated. You can populate it with the admin panel as a superuser.

   PS: > python manage.py makemigrations  
   PS: > python manage.py migrate  
   PS: > python manage.py createsuperuser

Some Specs:

• One-to-many(Foreign Key) relation models including built-in User model.
• Validators as a model field attribute.
• Nested ModelSerializers with the use of related_name model attribute preventing integrity error, and StringRelatedField for better naming convention.
• Generics class with perform_create overwrite.
• Built-in and Custom Permissions
• Preventing multiple comments from the same user.
• A user can see only its own comment.
• Pagination
• Populating User and Book models using Faker and requests library.(fake_data.py in scripts folder)

Some Important Notes:

• For the User model, the user creation is not handled by the endpoint, use either fake_data.py script or the admin panel to create it. There is a pipfile for fast-installing the related libraries, for which you need to install pipenv first, which combines the functionalities of pip and venv. The command below will automatically install all necessary libraries.

   PS: > pipenv install

• Before starting the server with the following command, make sure you use the python interpreter that belongs to the virtual environment you created.

   PS: > python manage.py runserver

• Make sure you login first before using the endpoints since they ask for authentication.