Today we will implement a client for the Star Wars API: https://swapi.co/ (a.k.a. swapi).
See extra documentation about the API here: https://swapi.co/documentation
swapi is using a RESTful structure. It has well defined "groups" of data, also known as resources (ie: people, planets, starships, etc).
Each resource has its own URL path. There are URLs used for LISTing many objects of given resource (ie: /api/people/), and other for getting the details of one particular object of the resource (ie: /api/people/1/).
We will concentrate in two particular resources: People and Films.
For each of them, we will need to create a model class able to query and present the data. You must respect the following interface:
>>> luke = People.get(1)
>>> str(luke)
"Person: Luke Skywalker"
>>> luke.name
"Luke Skywalker"
>>> luke.birth_year
"19 BBY"Resources must also implement a way of iterating through all objects. To do that, we will use the all() classmethod, which will return a QuerySet iterable object:
>>> qs = People.all()
>>> next(qs)
"Person: Luke Skywalker"
>>> next(qs)
"Person: C-3PO"Iterative structures like for, while and list comprehensions must also be supported by QuerySets:
>>> len([person for person in People.all()])
87
>>> for person in People.all():
print(person.name)
"Luke Skywalker"
"C-3PO"
...QuerySets must implement an easy way of returning the amount of objects it contains:
>>> qs.count()
87Feel free to expand the client behavior with extra functionality.