Case Study
Showroom API Vehicle Management Backend
A Django REST Framework backend for managing vehicle listings, featuring CRUD operations, authentication, filtering, pagination, API documentation, and a production-ready architecture designed for scalable backend development.
Python
Django
DRF
Django ORM
SQLite
JWT Authentication
Swagger/OpenAPI
Pytest
Git
GitHub
REST APIs
Features
Vehicle Management
- Complete CRUD operations for vehicles
- Retrieve single vehicle details
- Retrieve paginated vehicle listings
- Update existing vehicles
- Delete vehicles securely
Brand & Category Management
- Vehicle-brand relationships
- Vehicle-category relationships
- ForeignKey database relationships
- Organized relational database structure
Search & Filtering
- Search vehicles by name
- Filter by brand, horsepower, top speed, manufacturing year, country of origin, and maximum price
Pagination
- Custom pagination implementation with configurable page size
- Metadata including total records and pages
Authentication & Authorization
- JWT Authentication with user registration endpoint
- Protected endpoints and admin-only update/delete operations
- Authenticated vehicle creation
Data Validation
- Serializer-based validation with positive price and manufacturing year checks
- Request validation before database operations
Error Handling
- Proper HTTP status codes and validation error responses
- Object existence checks using
get_object_or_404
- Consistent API responses
API Documentation
- Interactive Swagger UI with OpenAPI documentation
- Endpoint testing directly from the browser
Testing
- API endpoint testing, serializer validation testing, authentication testing, permission testing, and CRUD operation testing