Thorgate API Core

Opinionated API framework on top of Django REST framework

• Free software: ISC license

Supports Python 3.5+, Django 1.11+, Django REST framework 3.6+

Features

• API documentation automatically generated from your views

  • General intro can be added
  • You can add example request/response data
  • Autogenerated Python requests-based examples
  • Not interactive yet

• Integrates JSON API

  • Cursor pagination with configurable page size

• Viewset classes for using different serializers and querysets for list/detail/edit endpoints
• API-specific 404 view
• Test utilities, e.g. for response validation

• Versioning (WIP)

  • Transformer-based approach, inspired by djangorestframework-version-transforms and Stripe

Usage

• pip install tg-apicore

• Add tg_apicore to INSTALLED_APPS

• Ensure your REST_FRAMEWORK setting contains ALLOWED_VERSIONS, e.g:

  # In your Django project settings:
  REST_FRAMEWORK = {
      'ALLOWED_VERSIONS': ('2018-01-01',),
  }
  

• Note that the default paginator requires that your models have created field

• Create API documentation view by subclassing APIDocumentationView and making necessary modifications. See example/example/views.py for example.

• Add main API urls plus 404 view (as fallback).

Here’s an example urls.py:

from tg_apicore.views import PageNotFoundView

from myproject.views import MyProjectAPIDocumentationView

urlpatterns = [
    # The documentation view
    url(r'^api-docs/', MyProjectAPIDocumentationView.as_view(), name='api-docs'),

    # myproject.urls_api should contain your API urls patterns
    url(r'^api/(?P<version>(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}))/', include('myproject.urls_api')),

    # API-specific 404 for everything under api/ prefix
    url(r'^api/', include(PageNotFoundView.urlpatterns())),
]

See example directory for a more in-depth demo.

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.