Lazy Ninja is a Django library that simplifies the generation of API endpoints using Django Ninja. It dynamically scans your Django models and generates Pydantic schemas for listing, retrieving, creating, and updating records. The library also allows you to customize behavior through hook functions (controllers) and schema configurations.
By leveraging Django Ninja, Lazy Ninja provides automatic, interactive API documentation via OpenAPI, making it easy to visualize and interact with your endpoints.
Install Lazy Ninja with either pip or uv:
# Option 1: pip
pip install lazy-ninja
# Option 2: uv
uv add lazy-ninjaFor contributors, the project now uses uv as the default package manager and runner:
git clone https://github.com/AghastyGD/lazy-ninja.git
cd lazy-ninja
uv sync --group dev --all-extras
uv run pytest# Install uv (one-time)
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
# Create/sync local environment from lockfile
uv sync --group dev --all-extras
# Run commands inside the managed environment
uv run pytest
uv run mkdocs serve -f docs/mkdocs.ymlThe repository includes uv.lock to provide deterministic, reproducible environments.
Here’s a simple example of integrating Lazy Ninja into your Django project:
from ninja import NinjaAPI
from lazy_ninja.builder import DynamicAPI
api = NinjaAPI()
auto_api = DynamicAPI(api)
auto_api.init()Add api.urls to your urls.py to expose the endpoints.
- Automatic Endpoints: Instantly generate API routes for your Django models.
- Dynamic Schema Generation: Automatically create Pydantic schemas for your models.
- Custom Controllers: Customize route behavior with hooks like
before_createandafter_update. - Built-in Filtering, Sorting, and Pagination: Simplify data handling with query parameters.
- Interactive Documentation: Swagger UI and ReDoc support out of the box.
- Basic CRUD operations
- Asynchronous support
- Filtering, sorting, and pagination
- File upload support
- Authentication and RBAC
- Advanced model relationships
Contributions are welcome! Feel free to fork the repository and submit a pull request with any improvements or bug fixes.
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
See the LICENSE file for details and full license text.
For complete documentation, including advanced usage, configuration options, and examples, visit the Lazy Ninja Documentation.
