THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS

Simple REST frameword for Django

dRest aims to be simple to use REST framework for Django. dRest is influenced by piston.

Key Characteristics

• Resource is the key concept, everything builds around it.
• Automatic content negotiation (parsers / formatters).
• Gets out of your way
  • You can use additional features but you don't need to.
  • Everything is optional and works with default values.
  • Simple to get started.
• Flexible access control based on Django's users, groups and permissions.
  • Ability to assign CRUD operations per resource for each user (or group)
  • dRest will auto-generate necessary permissions into the DB
  • You can use Django's admin interface to assign permissions to users and groups
  • After this dRest automatically picks up request.user and performs authorization
• Intentionally doesn't give you CRUD for free as piston does
  • We can add this option later if it's concidered useful, but:
  • This rarely works for legacy systems anyway
  • For anything bigger, it's usually a good idea to decouple model and presentation
• Ability to define representation using Django's forms
  • Automatic validation of incoming/outgoing data
  • Automatic documentation generation

Example

myresources.py:

from drest.resource import Resource
from drest.http import Response


class MyTestResource(Resource):
    def get(self, request, *args, **kw):
        return {'jedi': 'luke'}

urls.py:

from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, include, url
from drest.resource import Resource
import myresources

mytestresource = myresources.MyTestResource()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^test', mytestresource),
)

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Janne Kuuskeri

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