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Django RESTful Web Services

You're reading from   Django RESTful Web Services The easiest way to build Python RESTful APIs and web services with Django

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788833929
Length 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
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Preface 1. Installing the Required Software and Tools 2. Working with Models, Migrations, Serialization, and Deserialization FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating API Views 4. Using Generalized Behavior from the APIView Class 5. Understanding and Customizing the Browsable API Feature 6. Working with Advanced Relationships and Serialization 7. Using Constraints, Filtering, Searching, Ordering, and Pagination 8. Securing the API with Authentication and Permissions 9. Applying Throttling Rules and Versioning Management 10. Automating Tests 11. Solutions 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuring throttling policies in the Django REST framework

Now, we will configure throttling policies for the class-based views related to drones: DroneList and DroneDetail. We will override the values for the following class attributes for the class-based views:

  • throttle_classes: This class attribute specifies a tuple with the names of the classes that will manage throttling rules for the class. In this case, we will specify the ScopedRateThrottle class as the only member of the tuple.
  • throttle_scope: This class attribute specifies the throttle scope name that the ScopedRateThrottle class will use to accumulate the number of requests and limit the rate of requests.

This way, we will make these class-based views work with the ScopedRateThrottle class and we will configure the throttle scope that this class will consider for each of the class based views related to drones.

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