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A lightweight REST miniframework for Python.
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A lightweight REST miniframework for Python.

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A lightweight REST miniframework for Python.



Documentation is at https://restless.readthedocs.io/.



Works great with Django_, Flask_, Pyramid_, Tornado_ & Itty_, but should be useful for

many other Python web frameworks. Based on the lessons learned from Tastypie_

& other REST libraries.



.. _Django: https://www.djangoproject.com/

.. _Flask: http://flask.pocoo.org/

.. _Pyramid: https://pylonsproject.org/

.. _Itty: https://pypi.org/project/itty/

.. _Tastypie: http://tastypieapi.org/

.. _Tornado: https://www.tornadoweb.org/

.. _tox: https://tox.readthedocs.io/



Features

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* Small, fast codebase

* JSON output by default, but overridable

* RESTful

* Python 3.6+

* Django 2.2+

* Flexible



Anti-Features

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(Things that will never be added...)



* Automatic ORM integration

* Authorization (per-object or not)

* Extensive filtering options

* XML output (though you can implement your own)

* Metaclasses

* Mixins

* HATEOAS



Why?

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Quite simply, I care about creating flexible & RESTFul APIs. In building

Tastypie, I tried to create something extremely complete & comprehensive.

The result was writing a lot of hook methods (for easy extensibility) & a lot

of (perceived) bloat, as I tried to accommodate for everything people might

want/need in a flexible/overridable manner.



But in reality, all I really ever personally want are the RESTful verbs, JSON

serialization & the ability of override behavior.



This one is written for me, but maybe it's useful to you.



Manifesto

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Rather than try to build something that automatically does the typically

correct thing within each of the views, it's up to you to implement the bodies

of various HTTP methods.



Example code:



.. code:: python



    # posts/api.py

    from django.contrib.auth.models import User



    from restless.dj import DjangoResource

    from restless.preparers import FieldsPreparer



    from posts.models import Post



    class PostResource(DjangoResource):

        # Controls what data is included in the serialized output.

        preparer = FieldsPreparer(fields={

            'id': 'id',

            'title': 'title',

            'author': 'user.username',

            'body': 'content',

            'posted_on': 'posted_on',

        })



        # GET /

        def list(self):

            return Post.objects.all()



        # GET /pk/

        def detail(self, pk):

            return Post.objects.get(id=pk)



        # POST /

        def create(self):

            return Post.objects.create(

                title=self.data['title'],

                user=User.objects.get(username=self.data['author']),

                content=self.data['body']

            )



        # PUT /pk/

        def update(self, pk):

            try:

                post = Post.objects.get(id=pk)

            except Post.DoesNotExist:

                post = Post()



            post.title = self.data['title']

            post.user = User.objects.get(username=self.data['author'])

            post.content = self.data['body']

            post.save()

            return post



        # DELETE /pk/

        def delete(self, pk):

            Post.objects.get(id=pk).delete()



Hooking it up:



.. code:: python



    # api/urls.py

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



    from posts.api import PostResource



    urlpatterns = [

        # The usual suspects, then...



        url(r'^api/posts/', include(PostResource.urls())),

    ]



Licence

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BSD



Running the Tests

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The test suite uses tox_ for simultaneous support of multiple versions of both

Python and Django. The current versions of Python supported are:



* CPython 3.6

* CPython 3.7

* CPython 3.8

* CPython 3.9

* PyPy



You just need to install the Python interpreters above and the `tox` package

(available via `pip`), then run the `tox` command.