Django REST framework

Django REST framework makes it easy to build well-connected, self-describing RESTful Web APIs.

Author: Tom Christie. Follow me on Twitter.

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Overview

Features:

• Creates awesome self-describing web browse-able APIs.
• Clean, modular design, using Django's class based views.
• Easily extended for custom content types, serialization formats and authentication policies.
• Stable, well tested code-base.
• Active developer community.

Full documentation for the project is available at http://django-rest-framework.org

Issue tracking is on GitHub. General questions should be taken to the discussion group.

Requirements:

• Python 2.6+
• Django 1.3+

Installation Notes

To clone the project from GitHub using git:

git clone git@github.com:tomchristie/django-rest-framework.git

To install django-rest-framework in a virtualenv environment:

cd django-rest-framework
virtualenv --no-site-packages --distribute env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt # django, coverage

To run the tests:

export PYTHONPATH=.    # Ensure djangorestframework is on the PYTHONPATH
python djangorestframework/runtests/runtests.py

To run the test coverage report:

export PYTHONPATH=.    # Ensure djangorestframework is on the PYTHONPATH
python djangorestframework/runtests/runcoverage.py

To run the examples:

pip install -r examples/requirements.txt # pygments, httplib2, markdown
cd examples
export PYTHONPATH=..
python manage.py syncdb
python manage.py runserver

To build the documentation:

pip install -r docs/requirements.txt   # sphinx
sphinx-build -c docs -b html -d docs/build docs html

To run the tests against the full set of supported configurations:

deactivate  # Ensure we are not currently running in a virtualenv
tox

To create the sdist packages:

python setup.py sdist --formats=gztar,zip