🍋 Little Lemon API

The Little Lemon API is a Django REST Framework backend developed as part of Meta's APIs course. It provides a RESTful API for a fictional restaurant, allowing clients to manage menu items, shopping carts, orders, and user roles. The project uses Django, Django REST Framework, a relational database, serializers, viewsets, permissions, filtering, and token-based authentication to demonstrate how to build and secure production-style web APIs.

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🔐 User Authentication

• POST /api/users - Register a new user
• GET /api/users/users/me/ - Retrieve the authenticated user's profile
• POST /token/login/ - Generate an authentication token

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🍽️ Menu Items

Customer / Delivery Crew

• GET /api/menu-items - List all menu items
• GET /api/menu-items/{menuItem} - Retrieve a specific menu item

Manager

• GET /api/menu-items - List all menu items
• POST /api/menu-items - Create a menu item
• GET /api/menu-items/{menuItem} - Retrieve a specific menu item
• PUT /api/menu-items/{menuItem} - Update a menu item
• PATCH /api/menu-items/{menuItem} - Partially update a menu item
• DELETE /api/menu-items/{menuItem} - Delete a menu item

Additional Capabilities

• Filtering
• Searching
• Sorting
• Pagination

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👥 User Group Management

Managers Only

• GET /api/groups/manager/users - List all managers
• POST /api/groups/manager/users - Assign a user to the manager group
• DELETE /api/groups/manager/users/{userId} - Remove a user from the manager group
• GET /api/groups/delivery-crew/users - List all delivery crew
• POST /api/groups/delivery-crew/users - Assign a user to the delivery crew group
• DELETE /api/groups/delivery-crew/users/{userId} - Remove a user from the delivery crew group

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🛒 Cart Management

Customers

• GET /api/cart/menu-items - View the current user's cart
• POST /api/cart/menu-items - Add a menu item to the cart
• DELETE /api/cart/menu-items - Clear the current user's cart

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📦 Order Management

Customers

• GET /api/orders - View the customer's orders
• POST /api/orders - Place an order from the current cart
• GET /api/orders/{orderId} - View a specific order

Managers

• GET /api/orders - View all orders
• PUT /api/orders/{orderId} - Update an order, including assigning delivery crew and order status
• PATCH /api/orders/{orderId} - Partially update an order
• DELETE /api/orders/{orderId} - Delete an order
• Filtering by order status
• Sorting and pagination

Delivery Crew

• GET /api/orders - View orders assigned to the delivery crew member
• PATCH /api/orders/{orderId} - Update order delivery status

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⚙️ API Features

• 🔑 Token-based authentication
• 👥 Role-based permissions for Managers, Customers, and Delivery Crew
• 🚦 API throttling: 5 requests per minute
• 🔎 Filtering and searching
• ↕️ Sorting and pagination
• 📋 Appropriate HTTP status codes
• 🌐 RESTful GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE operations