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An inventory tool for Django Rest Framework v2 API endpoints
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An inventory tool for Django Rest Framework v2 API endpoints

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## ** This package is no longer being maintained **
## Please use [Django REST Swagger](https://github.com/marcgibbons/django-rest-swagger)

===========================
Rest Framework Docs (0.1.7)
===========================

Rest Framework Docs is an application built to produce an inventory
and documentation for your Django Rest Framework v2 endpoints.

Installation
------------
From pip:

pip install django-rest-framework-docs

From the source:
- Download the tarball: django-rest-framework-docs-0.1.7.tar.gz
- Extract files
- Run python setup.py install

Quick start
-----------

1. Add "rest_framework_docs" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:
```python
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'rest_framework_docs',
)
```

2. Include the polls URLconf in your project urls.py like this:

```python
url(r'^rest-api/', include('rest_framework_docs.urls')),
```

3. View /rest-api/ to see your Django Rest Framework endpoints

Requirements
-----------
- Django [1.4, 1.5]
- Django Rest Framework (2.1, 2.2, 2.3)

How it works
------------

The Django Rest Framework Docs scans your projects URL patterns for endpoints
inheriting from Django Rest Framework views. It extracts comments, variables
and methods from your code to generate documentation.
Here is what is being tracked to generate documentation:

1) The name attribute from the URL pattern is used as the title. The following will produce a title of 'List of Countries'

```python
url(r'^api/countries/?$', views.Countries.as_view(), name='list_of_countries'),
```

2) The class doctsring is used as the description:

```python
class Countries(APIView):
"""
This text is the description for this API
"""
```

3) The class model. (ie. User)

4) Allowed methods (GET, POST, PUT, etc.)

5) Serializer properties. If your API uses a serializer, the properties are
listed

6) Custom parameters. It is possible to customize a parameter list for your
API. To do so, include a key-value pair in the docstring of your API class
delimited by two hyphens ('--'). Example: 'start_time -- The first reading':
```python
class Countries(APIView):
"""
This text is the description for this API
param1 -- A first parameter
param2 -- A second parameter
"""
```
### Customization

#### Template
Django REST Framework Docs comes with a default template which you may override.

#### Make an API
Another option is to create an API for documentation that can be consumed on a different platform (ie. mobile).

```python
import json
from rest_framework.response import Response
from rest_framework.views import APIView
from cigar_example.restapi import urls
from rest_framework_docs.docs import DocumentationGenerator

class ApiDocumentation(APIView):
"""
Gets the documentation for the API endpoints
"""
def get(self, *args, **kwargs):
docs = DocumentationGenerator().get_docs()
return Response(json.loads(docs))
```

#### Specify your own URL patterns
By default, Django REST Framework Docs scans all your URL patterns and extracts those which inherit from the base `rest_framework.views.APIView`. You may choose to explicitly specify which URL patterns are to be included in the documentation by providing the urlpatterns to the DocumentationGenerator constructor.

```python
from yourproject.myapp import urls
docs = DocumentationGenerator(urls.urlpatterns).get_docs()
```

Included Example
-----------------
Included is an example project called cigar_example. It contains both Model-based
and custom API views to demonstrate the different behaviours. I also included an API of the documentation,
that is, the data parsed by the generator in JSON format (api/docs).
![Screenshot](https://raw.github.com/marcgibbons/django-rest-framework-docs/master/screenshots/api-docs.png)
![ApiInception](https://raw.github.com/marcgibbons/django-rest-framework-docs/master/screenshots/docs-in-api-form.png)

Contributions
--------------
Please contribute to improve this tool!

Special Thanks
--------------
Many thanks to Tom Christie for developing the Django Rest Framework - a tool I use everyday.

Release Notes
-------------
### v.0.1.7 (Sept 5, 2013)
- Added filtering & ordering
- URL flattening & custom serializer fixes

### v.0.1.6 (June 5, 2013)
- Bugfix when url patterns property 'name' is None

### v.0.1.5 (June 1, 2013)
- Now supports Django Rest Framework v2.3
- Backwards compatibility

### v.0.1.4 (April 3, 2013)
- Improved URL importing: included URL modules now show the full URL with prefix
- Borrowing URL "restification" from Django's admin docs
- General refactoring
- Wrote a few tests, more need to be written

### v.0.1.3 (March 6, 2013)
- URL import bug resolved

### v.0.1.2 (Feb 14, 2013)
- Now possible to use URL patterns using include
Example:
(r'', include('project.some_app.urls')),

### v0.1.1 (Jan 24, 2013)
- Fixed trailing $ sign in the URL pattern regex
- Changed URL pattern to show docs at index
- Added example Django REST application called cigar_example.
- Minor CSS changes
- Fixed setup.py requirements to require django>=1.4
- Fixed extra spaces in serializer fields regex (ie. U R L => URL)

Contributors
-------------
- Marc Gibbons (@marcgibbons)
- Scott Mountenay (@scottmx81)
- @swistakm
- Peter Baumgartner (@ipmb)
- Marlon Bailey (@avinash240)
- @filipeximenes
- @pleasedontbelong

License
--------
Copyright (c) 2013, Marc Gibbons
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND
ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR
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(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND
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(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
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