Django-piston - A mini-framework for Django for creating RESTful APIs

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by jespern • 17 years ago

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swaroop• 17 years ago

Awesome! I've been using django-oauth for sometime now, been looking at django-restapi and so on. But this takes the best of both worlds. And I especially like that it is not tied to the data models, so this means we can build in some business logic.

j2d2• 17 years ago

And I especially like that it is not tied to the data models, so this means we can build in some business logic.

Can you elaborate? I'm doing my first big django project now and am looking for lessons from others!

simonw2• 17 years ago

See Jacob's post here: http://jacobian.org/writing/rest-worst-practices/

Basically, it's a bad idea to couple something like django-piston too tightly to the underlying models because in any even moderately useful API there will be plenty of resources you want to expose that are actually cobbled together from various different models (or even other storage locations such as a search index or external web service).

simonw2• 17 years ago

Haven't tried this out yet, but I'm very optimistic from reading the documentation.

TJensen2• 17 years ago

I was just looking at Django REST apis last night but didn't find this one. This seems really similar to django-rest-interface, except for the oauth. Anybody know the potential upside/downside to this versus djang-rest-interface?

jespern• 17 years ago

"The Django REST interface makes it easy to offer private and public APIs for existing Django models."

Piston doesn't tie you to a model (although it can), which is very important for any decent sized API. Exposing models is something you want half the time, but there's a lot more to it.

henning• 17 years ago

Yo dawg, I heard you like frameworks.

TJensen2• 17 years ago

FWIW, I switch from django-rest-interface to django-piston. The models are very similar, but I think piston is a little cleaner. It also seems to be a little more actively developed (at least, according to the source histories).

scorpioxy• 17 years ago

Well, a lot of the requested changes now require a re-write. And I don't have time for it, unless a project comes along and requires just that. I am not sure what to do about it other than hope someone would help.

Django-piston - A mini-framework for Django for creating RESTful APIs

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