manmanthan / django-crud

A REST API for northwind database

Setting up MySQL Database

####Step 1: Create new schema

• Open the MySQL Workbench and create a new schema by clicking the create new schema in the connected server option.
• Select a suitable schema/database name and press apply. This will create the schema and it will appear in the SCHEMAS section of the MySQL workbench.
• In our case the schema name is djangodatabase.

####Step 2: Create authentication user for the schema

• Once the schema is ready create an authentication user and grant privileges to this user. Create the user by running the following query

create user dbadmin identified by '12345';

• Grant the privileges by running the following query

grant all on djangodatabase.* to 'dbadmin'@'%';

• In order to load the newly granted privileges to the user run the following query

flush privileges;

Setting up Django Project

####Step 1: Setting up the virtual environment

• Activate your virtual environment and run the following command.

pip install -r requirements.txt

####Step 2: Installing MySQL Client

• You can install MySQL client directly through pip using the command

pip install mysqlclient

####Step 3: Updating the Connect String

• Open the settings.py file of the Django project. Update the connection string.

DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', 'NAME': 'djangodatabase', 'USER': 'dbadmin', 'PASSWORD': '12345', 'HOST': 'localhost', 'PORT': '3306', } }

####Step 4: Make Migrations

• Now run the commands

python manage.py makemigrations

python manage.py migrate

####Step 5: Run server locally

• Run the following command to run the Django development server.

python manage.py runserver

Using the API

####Step 1: Open the REST API

• Open the following link in your browser.

http://127.0.0.1:8000/

Step 2: Use Cases

• To insert, update and select on customers open

http://127.0.0.1:8000/customers/

• To insert, update and select on products open

http://127.0.0.1:8000/products/

• To check the order history of given customer open

http://127.0.0.1:8000/orders/

• Use filter tab to search the customer name.