Building a web app using Python, Django REST. It follows typical RESTful API design pattern.

I assume you already installed Python 3.4 or higher and pip.

Install virtualenv via pip:

$ pip install virtualenv

Create a virtual environment for a project:

$ cd this-project
$ virtualenv venv

To use the virtual environment, you can activate it with:

$ source venv/bin/activate

Install the project packages including Django:

(venv) $ pip install -r requirements.txt

And you run the migrations:

(venv) $ python manage.py makemigrations
(venv) $ python manage.py migrate

With this command:

(venv) $ python manage.py runserver

As you can see, there is no data from the CSV file.

With the following command:

(venv) $ python manage.py shell < devices/experiment_with_CSV.py

Check it now in the browser.

Here is an example of running a url in a browser:

GET http://localhost:5000/devices 

{
    "id": 1,
    "device_id": "a4a281ad",
    "timestamp": "2017-05-01T00:00:10Z",
    "device_type": "sensor",
    "status": "offline"
}

You populated the database with 5182 datasets. Cool, right?

• there has to be a validation on the data format
• the integration test could make sure that the validation is properly working
• the database should be automatically populated with CSV data after running the migrations
• other http methods are coming if needed