Understanding API Views

• Django Rest framework provides an API View class, which subclasses from Django’w View Class
• In Django, The base view for creating APIs is APIView, But every API will have similar sort of code depending of what the API has to respond to
• To return list of elemets from database
• Get all the objects from the model
• serialize the Elements into Json
• Return the Response
• Rather than us trying to do all of this Django restframework has handy API view
• generics.ListAPIView: This view is derived from GenericAPIView and mixins.ListModelMixin which makes it extreemly easier to create a get for getting list of items
• Now lets use ListCreateAPIView for our endpoint /Recipes/
• Refer Here for the changes done

• Now we have implemented the Publish and unpublish recipes and Get a specific recipe Refer Here for the changes

• Exercise: Implement the delete API functionality (Soft Delete)

• Refer Here for the Mixin and Refer Here for the API Views