manti-by / DjREST

DjREST is a lightweight library that provides basics of what is needed to create RESTful APIs on top of Django.

DjREST

DjREST is a lightweight library that provides basics of what is needed to create RESTful APIs on top of Django.

NOTE: This is fork of https://github.com/croach/django-simple-rest with some improvements.

Installation

1. Install using pip

   $ pip install djrest

Sample Project Setup

# --------------------
# example/resources.py
# --------------------

import json

from djrest import Resource
from django.http import JsonResponse

from example.models import Email

class ContactResource(Resource):

    def post(self, request):
        meta = {
            item: request.META.get(item)
            for item in ['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE', 'HTTP_REFERER', 'HTTP_USER_AGENT']
        }

        e = Email(name=request.POST.get('name'),
                  email=request.POST.get('email'),
                  subject='Test Subject',
                  message=request.POST.get('message'),
                  meta=json.dumps({'cookies': request.COOKIES, 'meta': meta}))
        e.save()
        return JsonResponse({'status': 200,
                             'message': 'Thanks for subscribing'}, status=200)

# -----------------
# example/models.py
# -----------------

from django.db import models

class Email(models.Model):

    name = models.CharField(max_length=255, blank=True, null=True)
    email = models.EmailField()
    subject = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    message = models.TextField()
    meta = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True)