Hello, hackers! I hope you are all having a great weekend, it is a beautiful Sunday, and let's complete this week with another part of the "Building the REST API using Python Django" series.

If you haven't read the previous chapter, it's about setting up the environment and the project.

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We start with an image from the previous post, our ER diagram.

ONE-ON-ONE RELATIONSHIPS - For any binary type of relationships let's call it R(1:1) in the ER scheme, we identify the relations S and T that correspond to the entity types participating in the relationship R. We choose one of two relations, let's say relation S, and we include a foreign key that represents a corresponding primary key of the relation T.

ONE-ON-MANY RELATIONSHIPS - For any binary type of relationship let's call it R(1:N) in the ER scheme, we identify relation S that participates on the N side of the relationship. In the S we include the foreign key that corresponds to the primary key of the relation T.

MANY-TO-MANY RELATIONSHIPS - For any binary type of relationship let's call it R(M:N) in the ER scheme, we create a totally new relation P, so-called pivot table. The P includes the foreign keys corresponding to the primary keys of the relations that represent entity types participating in the relationship R.

We have two relationships that correspond to ONE-TO-MANY relationships and only one relationship corresponding to MANY-TO-MANY relationships.

This means that in the EMPLOYEE-SECTOR relationship the corresponding entity type on the N side of the relationship is Employee, which means, it will hold a foreign key to the Sector entity type.

In the SECTOR-PROJECT relationship, the corresponding entity type on the N side of the relationship is the Project entity type, which means, it will hold a foreign key to the Sector entity type.

In the EMPLOYEE-PROJECT relationship, we have a MANY-TO-MANY relationship. This means, that a new table, a pivot table, will be created with the foreign keys corresponding to the primary keys of the Employee and the Project entity type, respectively.

In the models.py we add the following code.

In our admin.py we add the following code

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