Django Restless is a lightweight set of tools for implementing JSON-based RESTful APIs in Django. It helps with writing APIs that loosely follow the RESTful paradigm, without forcing you to do so, and without imposing a full-blown REST framework.
Restless provides only JSON support. If you need to support XML or other formats, you probably want to take a look at some of the other frameworks out there (we recommend Django REST framework).
Here is a simple view implementing an API endpoint greeting the caller:
from restless.views import Endpoint
class HelloWorld(Endpoint):
def get(self, request):
name = request.params.get('name', 'World')
return {'message': 'Hello, %s!' % name}
One of the main ideas behind Restless is that it's lightweight and reuses as much of functionality in Django as possible. For example, input parsing and validation is done using standard Django forms. This means you don't have to learn a whole new API to use Restless.
Django Restless is available from cheeseshop, so you can install it via pip:
pip install DjangoRestless
For the latest and the greatest, you can also get it directly from git master:
pip install -e git+ssh://github.com/senko/DjangoRestless/tree/master
The supported Python versions are 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4, and the supported Django versions are 1.5+.
Documentation is graciously hosted by ReadTheDocs: http://django-restless.rtfd.org/
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