A Django-powered API

Includes various utility apps / endpoints.

Demos

These web apps provide a frontend to the APIs in this project.

• Issue API Explorer

• Issue Tracker app

• Skill Reference app

User -- demo : [email protected]

Overview

• Built with Django 3
• Uses Rest Framework for API views
• Uses Knox Token Authentication
• Has examples of:
  • JSON API views (skill, issue, polls, auth)
  • Regular Django views (polls)

Project Structure

• django_api/api - API apps
• django_api/modules - Regular apps
• django_api/utils - Utils app

Requirements

• Python 3
• Pipenv

Setup

1. Install dependencies

pipenv install

2. Open Pipenv shell

pipenv shell

3. Run migrations

python manage.py migrate

4. Create superuser

python manage.py createsuperuser

Follow the prompts to create an admin user.

5. Load fixture data (optional)

python manage.py loaddata issue/all

This will load dummy data for the issue module. It includes:

• Users
• Issue metadata records (tags, types, statuses, etc)
• Projects
• Issues

python manage.py loaddata skill/skills

This will load dummy data for the skill module. It includes:

• Skills

Run

python manage.py runserver

Try:

• Admin Backend: http://localhost:8000/admin/

• Auth API: http://localhost:8000/api/auth

• Polls app: http://localhost:8000/apps/polls/

API Authentication

• Login with Basic Auth at http://localhost:8000/api/auth/login. This will return the following payload:

{
    "expiry": "2021-09-07T20:51:49.354313-04:00",
    "token": "
   
    ",
    "user": {
        "id": 1,
        "username": "user",
        "email": "[email protected]",
        "first_name": "Example",
        "last_name": "User",
        "last_login": "2021-09-06T20:51:49.356207-04:00",
        "is_active": true,
        "date_joined": "2021-09-06T18:07:32-04:00",
        "is_staff": true,
        "is_superuser": true
    }
}

   

Use with the Authorization header on subsequent request like this:

Authorization: Token