Django REST Framework

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Comparison with other packages

Question: This is not part of Django itself. Are there other solutions out there?

A: TastyPie

What are the differences between Django REST Framework and TastyPie? - Stackoverflow

Also, Flask has built-in REST support which is said to be able to do things that Django REST Framework can't, e.g. combine queries like http://mysite.com/api/model1/filters/api/model2/filters

Installation

Install package with pip. (markdown and django-filter are optional add-ons.)

$ pip install djangorestframework
$ pip install markdown       # Markdown support for the browsable API.
$ pip install django-filter  # Filtering support

Add the rest_framework app to the project:

# settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'rest_framework',
)

To use the browsable REST API, add the login and logout urls:

# urls.py

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    url(r'^api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls', namespace='rest_framework'))
]

Notes

External Links

• Quickstart - Django REST framework