Overview

django-declarative-apis is a framework built on top of Django aimed at teams implementing RESTful APis. It provides a simple interface to define endpoints declaratively. Some benefits to using django-declarative-apis:

Define endpoints declaratively
Define model-bound and unbound resource endpoints with a consistent interface
OAuth 1.0a authentication out of the box
Define resource and endpoint-bound tasks, promoting modularity
Define synchronous and asynchronous tasks (asynchronous tasks implemented with Celery)
Separation of concerns between request body processing and business logic

Quick start

This guide is intended to demonstrate the bare minimum in order to get a django-declarative-apis project up and running. The example directory contains further examples using endpoint to model relationships, authentication and response attribute filtering.

Create django app

./manage startapp myapp

Add app to INSTALLED_APPS

INSTALLED_APPS = [
   'django_declarative_apis',
   'myapp',
]

Add required config

DECLARATIVE_ENDPOINT_RESOURCE_ADAPTER = 'django_declarative_apis.adapters.EndpointResource'
DECLARATIVE_ENDPOINT_AUTHENTICATION_HANDLERS = 'django_declarative_apis.authentication.oauthlib.oauth1.TwoLeggedOauth1'

myapp/urls.py

from django_declarative_apis import adapters
import myapp.resources

class NoAuth:
   @staticmethod
   def is_authenticated(request):
      return True


urlpatterns = [
    url(
        r'^ping$',
        adapters.resource_adapter(
            get=myapp.resources.PingDefinition,
            authentication=NoAuth
        )
    ),
]

myproject/myproject/urls.py

from django.conf.urls import url, include
import myapp.urls

urlpatterns = [
   url(r'^', include(myapp.urls)),
]

myapp/resources.py

from django_declarative_apis import machinery


class PingDefinition(machinery.BaseEndpointDefinition):
    def is_authorized(self):
        return True

    @property
    def resource(self):
        return {'ping': 'pong'}

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