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Django 5 By Example

Django 5 By Example

By : Antonio Melé
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Django 5 By Example

Django 5 By Example

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By: Antonio Melé

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If you want to learn Django by doing, this book is for you. Django 5 By Example is the fifth edition of the best-selling franchise that helps you build real-world web apps. This book will walk you through planning and creation, solving common problems, and implementing best practices using a step-by-step approach. You’ll cover a wide range of web application development topics through four different projects: a blog application, a social website, an e-commerce application, and an e-learning platform. Pick up what’s new in Django 5 as you build end-to-end Python web apps, follow detailed project plans, and understand the hows and whys of Django. This is a practical and approachable book that will have you creating web apps quickly.
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Adding pagination to views

DRF includes built-in pagination capabilities to control how many objects are sent over in your API responses. When the content of your site starts to grow, you might end up with a large number of subjects and courses. Pagination can be particularly useful to improve performance and the user experience when dealing with large datasets.

Let’s update the SubjectListView view to include pagination. First, we will define a pagination class.

Create a new file inside the courses/api/ directory and name it pagination.py. Add the following code to it:

from rest_framework.pagination import PageNumberPagination
class StandardPagination(PageNumberPagination):
    page_size = 10
    page_size_query_param = 'page_size'
    max_page_size = 50

In this class, we inherit from PageNumberPagination. This class provides support for pagination based on page numbers. We set the following attributes:

  • page_size: Determines the default...

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