Hi John, Do you have any thoughts as a result of your investigation. I too found all three mentioned above was looking into them before coming upon your thread. Thanks.
On Saturday, 7 January 2012 08:47:44 UTC-8, JohnA wrote: > > Thanks for the comments. The developer-friendly features of Django > REST framework sound very interesting. I will definitely check it > out. > > On Jan 7, 10:29 am, sbrandt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thumbs up for Django REST framework. While being younger than tastypie > > and piston, it has some more cool features besides the mentioned > > creation of doc above. > > > > It also creates a HTML debug interface for every resource and follows > > the class based views and form validation paradigms of django making > > it powerful and esay to learn. It's under active development - the > > other two were not the last time I looked. > > > > On 6 Jan., 22:25, JohnA <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I’ve looked on this group, stackoverflow and the web at large for > > > indication that the django community is converging on a single REST > > > API package that is “preferred” and a potential candidate for > > > inclusion in a future django distribution. So far all I’ve seen is > > > people saying positive or negative things about various packages or > > > the alternatives of writing yet another package or just winging it > > > with urlconfs and views. > > > > > It doesn’t seem to be a matter of "it depends what you want to > > > do" (though maybe required use or not of HTTP PUT and DELETE methods > > > could be a deciding factor). I’m not an expert in REST, but the basic > > > requirements seem pretty clear to me – clean urls, multiple output > > > formats (xml, json etc.) and reliable and reasonably nonintrusive > > > authentication procedures – plus of course ease of implementation > > > including achieving wide coverage of base functionality with minimal > > > incremental code. > > > > > I guess what I'm asking is, what if any REST API package is emerging > > > as the leading solution, and if none, why not? Thanks.- Hide quoted > text - > > > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
