Django notes

• Django documentation
• Models
  from django.db import models
• Fields
• Templates
• Template tags and filters
• Views
• HttpResponse
  from django.http import HttpResponse
• redirect
  from django.shortcuts import redirect
• Class-based views
• URL dispatcher
  from django.urls import path, re_path
• Forms
  from django import forms
• Cache
  from django.core.cache import cache
• Management commands
  from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand
from django.core.management import call_command
• Run a django-aware script
  python manage.py shell < your_script.py
• Middleware
• Queries
• Q objects
  from django.db.models import Q
• Settings
  from django.conf import settings
• Testing
  from django.test import TestCase
• Users
  from django.contrib.auth.models import User

  Change password

  user = User.objects.get(...)
  user.set_password("new_password")
  user.save()

• Executing SQL directly
  

  from django.db import connection
  c = connection.cursor()
  c.execute(...)
  c.close()

Django REST framework

• Serializers
  from rest_framework import serializers
• Views
  from rest_framework.views import APIView
from rest_framework.decorators import api_view
• Responses
  from rest_framework.response import Response
• Status codes
  from rest_framework import status
• Testing
  from rest_framework.test import APIClient, APITestCase