Django Rest Framework Proxy

Provides views to redirect incoming request to another API server.

Features:

• Masquerade paths
• HTTP Basic Auth (between your API and backend API)
• Supported methods: GET/POST/PUT/PATCH
• File uploads

TODO:

• Pass auth information from original client to backend API

#Installation#

$ pip install django-rest-framework-proxy 

#Usage# There are couple of ways to use proxies. You can either use provided views as is or subclass them.

Settings

# settings.py
REST_PROXY = {
    'HOST': 'https://api.example.com',
    'AUTH': {
        'user': 'myuser',
        'password': 'mypassword',
    },
}

Simple way

# urls.py
from rest_framework_proxy.views import ProxyView

# Basic
url(r'^item/$', ProxyView.as_view(source='items/'), name='item-list'),

# With captured URL parameters
url(r'^item/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)$', ProxyView.as_view(source='items/%(pk)s'), name='item-detail'),

Complex way

# views.py
from rest_framework_proxy.views import ProxyView

class ItemListProxy(ProxyView):
  """
  List of items
  """
  source = 'items/'

class ItemDetailProxy(ProxyView):
  """
  Item detail
  """
  source = 'items/%(pk)s'

# urls.py
from views import ProxyListView, ProxyDetailView

url(r'^item/$', ProxyListView.as_view(), name='item-list'),
url(r'^item/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)$', ProxyDetailView.as_view(), name='item-detail'),

Settings

Setting	Default	Comment
HOST	None	Proxy request to this host (e.g. https://example.com/api/).
AUTH	{'user': None, 'password': None}	Proxy requests using HTTP Basic Authentication.
TIMEOUT	None	Timeout value for proxy requests.
ACCEPT_MAPS	{'text/html': 'application/json'}	Modify Accept-headers before proxying them. You can use this to disallow certain types. By default text/html is translated to return JSON data.
DISALLOWED_PARAMS	('format',)	Remove defined query parameters from proxy request.

Permissions

You can limit access by using Permission classes and custom Views. See http://django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/permissions.html for more information

# permissions.py
from rest_framework.permissions import BasePermission, SAFE_METHODS

class AdminOrReadOnly(BasePermission):
    """
    Read permission for everyone. Only admins can modify content.
    """
    def has_permission(self, request, view, obj=None):
        if (request.method in SAFE_METHODS or
            request.user and request.user.is_staff):
            return True
        return False

# views.py
from rest_framework_proxy.views import ProxyView
from permissions import AdminOrReadOnly

class ItemListProxy(ProxyView):
    permission_classes = (AdminOrReadOnly,)