Home - Django REST framework
Django REST framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs. Some reasons you might want to use REST framework: The Web browsable API is a huge usability win for your developers.
Quickstart - Django REST framework
We're going to create a simple API to allow admin users to view and edit the users and groups in the system. Project setup. Create a new Django project named tutorial, then start a new app called quickstart.
Tutorials and Resources - Django REST framework
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1 - Serialization - Django REST framework
This tutorial will cover creating a simple pastebin code highlighting Web API. Along the way it will introduce the various components that make up REST framework, and give you a comprehensive understanding of how everything fits together.
Requests - Django REST framework
REST framework's Request class extends the standard HttpRequest, adding support for REST framework's flexible request parsing and request authentication. Request parsing REST framework's Request objects provide flexible request parsing that allows you to treat requests with JSON data or other media types in the same way that you would normally ...
Documenting your API - Django REST framework
Self describing APIs. The browsable API that REST framework provides makes it possible for your API to be entirely self describing. The documentation for each API endpoint can be provided simply by visiting the URL in your browser.
Views - Django REST framework
REST framework provides an APIView class, which subclasses Django's View class. APIView classes are different from regular View classes in the following ways: Requests passed to the handler methods will be REST framework's Request …
2 - Requests and responses - Django REST framework
REST framework provides two wrappers you can use to write API views. The @api_view decorator for working with function based views. The APIView class for working with class-based views.
Testing - Django REST framework
REST framework also includes a client for interacting with your application using the popular Python library, requests. This may be useful if: You are expecting to interface with the API primarily from another Python service, and want to test the …
Serializers - Django REST framework
The dynamic-rest package extends the ModelSerializer and ModelViewSet interfaces, adding API query parameters for filtering, sorting, and including / excluding all fields and relationships defined by your serializers.