📚 Books REST API: CRUD Operations & Authentication

🌟 Description

Welcome to the Books REST API! 📖 This API lets you manage books with ease. Non-authenticated users can browse and search the book list, while authenticated users can create, read, update, and delete their own books. It also supports pagination for smooth data handling. 🚀

✨ Features

• 🛠️ Built with Django, Python, and Django REST Framework
• 🔒 Secure JWT-based authentication using djangorestframework_simplejwt
• 📝 Full CRUD operations for authenticated users
• 🔍 Search functionality for discovering books
• 📄 Pagination for efficient book listings

🛠️ Tech Stack

• 🐍 Python
• 🌐 Django
• ⚙️ Django REST Framework
• 🔐 Django REST Framework SimpleJWT

🚀 Installation Instructions

Get started in a few simple steps:

1. Clone the repository to your local machine.
2. Ensure Python is installed (version 3.8+ recommended).
3. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Set up the database and apply migrations:

   python manage.py migrate

5. Launch the development server:

   python manage.py runserver

📖 Usage Examples

Explore the API with these endpoints (base URL: http://localhost:8000/api/v1/):

• 📋 List & Create Books:
  • GET /books: View all books (open to everyone).
  • POST /books: Add a new book (authenticated users only).
• 📕 Book Details:
  • GET /books/1/: Get details of book with ID=1.
• ✍️ Update a Book:
  • PUT /books/1/update: Update book with ID=1 (authenticated users only).
• 🗑️ Delete a Book:
  • DELETE /books/1/delete: Delete book with ID=1 (authenticated users only).
• 🔎 Search Books:
  • GET /books/?search=hello: Find books containing "hello".
• 📑 Pagination:
  • GET /books/?limit=10&offset=2: Fetch 10 books, starting from the 3rd record.

📜 License

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