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Build a Python application

The following tutorial creates an e-commerce application running in Python, connects to a YugabyteDB cluster, and performs REST API calls to send requests and query the results.

Before you begin

This tutorial assumes that you have satisfied the following prerequisites.

YugabyteDB

YugabyteDB is up and running. If you are new to YugabyteDB, you can have YugabyteDB up and running within five minutes by following the steps in Quick start.

Python

Python 3 or later is installed.

Django

Django 2.2 or later is installed.

Clone the orm-examples repository

$ git clone https://github.com/yugabyte/orm-examples.git

This repository has a Django ORM example that implements a simple REST API server. Database access in this application is managed through the Django ORM. The e-commerce database ysql_django includes the following tables:

users stores users of the e-commerce site.
products contains a list of products the e-commerce site sells.
orders contains orders placed by the users.
orderline stores multiple line items from an order.

The source for the above application can be found in the python/django directory of Yugabyte's Using ORMs with YugabyteDB repository.

Set up the application

Customize the database connection setting according to your environment in the ybstore/settings.py file. This file is in the orm-examples/python/django directory.

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
        'NAME': 'ysql_django',
        'USER': 'yugabyte',
        'PASSWORD': '',
        'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
        'PORT': '5433',
    }
}

Generate a Django secret key and paste the generated key in the following line of the settings.py file:

SECRET_KEY = 'YOUR-SECRET-KEY'

Create a database using the YugabyteDB YSQL shell (ysqlsh). From the location of your local YugabyteDB cluster, run the following shell command:

bin/ysqlsh -c "CREATE DATABASE ysql_django"

From the orm-examples/python/django directory, run the following command to create the migrations and migrate the changes to the database:

python3 manage.py makemigrations && python3 manage.py migrate

Start the REST API server

Run the following Python script to start the REST API server at port 8080, or specify a port of your own choice.

python3 manage.py runserver 8080

The REST API server starts and listens for your requests at http://localhost:8080.

Send requests to the application

Create 2 users.

$ curl --data '{ "firstName" : "John", "lastName" : "Smith", "email" : "jsmith@example.com" }' \
   -v -X POST -H 'Content-Type:application/json' http://localhost:8080/users

$ curl --data '{ "firstName" : "Tom", "lastName" : "Stewart", "email" : "tstewart@example.com" }' \
   -v -X POST -H 'Content-Type:application/json' http://localhost:8080/users

Create 2 products.

$ curl \
  --data '{ "productName": "Notebook", "description": "200 page notebook", "price": 7.50 }' \
  -v -X POST -H 'Content-Type:application/json' http://localhost:8080/products

$ curl \
  --data '{ "productName": "Pencil", "description": "Mechanical pencil", "price": 2.50 }' \
  -v -X POST -H 'Content-Type:application/json' http://localhost:8080/products

Create 2 orders.

$ curl \
  --data '{ "userId": "2", "products": [ { "productId": 1, "units": 2 } ] }' \
  -v -X POST -H 'Content-Type:application/json' http://localhost:8080/orders

$ curl \
  --data '{ "userId": "2", "products": [ { "productId": 1, "units": 2 }, { "productId": 2, "units": 4 } ] }' \
  -v -X POST -H 'Content-Type:application/json' http://localhost:8080/orders

Query results

Using the YSQL shell

$ ./bin/ysqlsh

ysqlsh (11.2)
Type "help" for help.

yugabyte=#

yugabyte=# SELECT count(*) FROM users;

 count
-------
     2
(1 row)

yugabyte=# SELECT count(*) FROM products;

 count
-------
     2
(1 row)

yugabyte=# SELECT count(*) FROM orders;

 count
-------
     2
(1 row)

Using the REST API

$ curl http://localhost:8080/users

{
  "content": [
    {
      "userId": 2,
      "firstName": "Tom",
      "lastName": "Stewart",
      "email": "tstewart@example.com"
    },
    {
      "userId": 1,
      "firstName": "John",
      "lastName": "Smith",
      "email": "jsmith@example.com"
    }
  ],
  ...
}

$ curl http://localhost:8080/products

{
  "content": [
    {
      "productId": 2,
      "productName": "Pencil",
      "description": "Mechanical pencil",
      "price": 2.5
    },
    {
      "productId": 1,
      "productName": "Notebook",
      "description": "200 page notebook",
      "price": 7.5
    }
  ],
  ...
}

$ curl http://localhost:8080/orders

{
  "content": [
    {
      "orderTime": "2019-05-10T04:26:54.590+0000",
      "orderId": "999ae272-f2f4-46a1-bede-5ab765bb27fe",
      "user": {
        "userId": 2,
        "firstName": "Tom",
        "lastName": "Stewart",
        "email": "tstewart@example.com"
      },
      "userId": null,
      "orderTotal": 25,
      "products": []
    },
    {
      "orderTime": "2019-05-10T04:26:48.074+0000",
      "orderId": "1598c8d4-1857-4725-a9ab-14deb089ab4e",
      "user": {
        "userId": 2,
        "firstName": "Tom",
        "lastName": "Stewart",
        "email": "tstewart@example.com"
      },
      "userId": null,
      "orderTotal": 15,
      "products": []
    }
  ],
  ...
}

Explore the source

The source for the above application can be found in the orm-examples repository.