start class to contact metagenedb api

backend/metagenedb/api/catalog/views/gene.py

 import pandas as pd
-from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist
 from drf_yasg import openapi
 from drf_yasg.utils import swagger_auto_schema
 from rest_framework import status
@@ -51,21 +50,6 @@ class GeneViewSet(ModelViewSet):
     def get_permissions(self):
         return super(self.__class__, self).get_permissions()
 
-    def create(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
-        """
-        Overload create to behave like an upsert method.
-        """
-        serializer = self.get_serializer(data=request.data)
-        try:
-            gene_obj = self.queryset.get(gene_id=request.data.get('gene_id'))
-            serializer = self.get_serializer(gene_obj, data=request.data)
-        except ObjectDoesNotExist:
-            serializer = self.get_serializer(data=request.data)
-        serializer.is_valid(raise_exception=True)
-        self.perform_create(serializer)
-        headers = self.get_success_headers(serializer.data)
-        return Response(serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED, headers=headers)
-
     def _count_windows(self, df, window_size=10000, window_col=GENE_LENGTH_COL):
         """
         Count how many line of the df belong to each windows defined by the window_size for the window_col

backend/metagenedb/common/utils/api/__init__.py

+from .togows import TogoWSEntry  # noqa

backend/metagenedb/common/utils/api/metagenedb.py

+import logging
+import requests
+from abc import ABC
+from urllib.parse import urljoin
+
+logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
+_LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class MetageneDB(ABC):
+    BASE_URL = 'http://localhost/'
+    ROUTE = ''
+    HEADERS = {
+        'Content-type': 'application/json',
+        'Accept': '*/*'
+    }
+
+    def __init__(self, base_url=BASE_URL):
+        self.url = urljoin(base_url, self.ROUTE)
+
+
+class MetageneDBCatalogGene(MetageneDB):
+    ROUTE = 'api/catalog/v1/genes/'
+
+    def get_genes(self):
+        response = requests.get(self.url)
+        response.raise_for_status()
+        return response.json()
+
+    def get(self, gene_id):
+        full_url = urljoin(self.url, gene_id)
+        response = requests.get(full_url)
+        response.raise_for_status()
+        return response.json()
+
+    def post(self, data):
+        response = requests.post(f"{self.url}", json=data, headers=self.HEADERS)
+        response.raise_for_status()
+        return response.json()
+
+    def put(self, gene_id, data):
+        full_url = urljoin(self.url, gene_id)
+        response = requests.put(f"{full_url}/", json=data, headers=self.HEADERS)
+        response.raise_for_status()
+        return response.json()