Re: Creating REST APIs in Django...advice

2011-04-12 Thread Tom Christie
  The obvious big difference with REST framework is that the API is entirely web browse-able. To me that's quite a big deal - your API can be genuinely self documenting, and it's massively easier to browse, work with, and debug, than it would be if your working from the command line all the

Re: Creating REST APIs in Django...advice

2011-04-12 Thread Brian Bouterse
This is an interesting approach I had not thought of before. Thanks! Agreed, CRUD is not the same as REST. Brian On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:51 AM, sebastien piquemal wrote: > Well ... http://django-rest-framework.org allows you to override the > method by adding a post

Re: Creating REST APIs in Django...advice

2011-04-12 Thread sebastien piquemal
Well ... http://django-rest-framework.org allows you to override the method by adding a post parameter. So in your form, you just add a hidden input or and django-rest-framework will pipe your POST request into the "put" handler or "delete" handler. Of course name="_method" can be

Re: Creating REST APIs in Django...advice

2011-04-12 Thread Brian Bouterse
I've been reading through the documentation for piston and django-rest-framework.org and they both look like great projects. Could anyone with experience working with either of these applications (or their authors themselves) provide some compare and contrasting of the features/usability/etc.

Creating REST APIs in Django...advice

2011-04-12 Thread Tom Christie
I've been working on this with some folks: http://django-rest-framework.org Released 0.1 a few weeks ago, and it's coming along *really* nicely. It's under v active development ATM. The auto-generated API browser is particularly cool. Really would advise anyone taking a look at building web

Re: Creating REST APIs in Django...advice

2011-04-12 Thread Massimiliano della Rovere
https://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/wiki/Home skype: masdero, icq: 473891447, yim: mas_dero, msn: mas_d...@hotmail.com Mi scriva in italiano; Write me in English; Skribu al mi Esperante! On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:07, Mazery Smith wrote: > Hello, >

Creating REST APIs in Django...advice

2011-04-12 Thread Mazery Smith
Hello, So can anyone here recommend some REST packages/tools you use with Django and have a good experience with? I'm interested to know b/c it seems like most of the popular RESTful Django projects really stopped being very active around mid-2008. I'm wondering if that's because most people