dj-webmachine

dj-webmachine is an application layer that adds HTTP semantic awareness on top of Django and provides a simple and clean way to connect that to your applications’ behavior. dj-webmachine also offers you the possibility to build simple API based on your model and the tools to create automatically docs and clients from it (work in progress).

Install

Make sure that you have a working Python 2.x >=2.5 installed and Django >= 1.1.

With pip

$ pip install dj-webmachine

From source

Get the dj-webmachine code:

$ git clone https://github.com/benoitc/dj-webmachine.git
$ cd dj-webmachine

Or using a tarbal:

$ wget http://github.com/benoitc/dj-webmachine/tarball/master -o dj-webmachine.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf dj-webmachine.tar.gz
$ cd dj-webmachine-$HASH/

and install:

$ sudo python setup.py install

dj-webmachine in 5 minutes

We will quickly create an Hello world accepting HTML and JSON.

$ django-admin startproject helloworld
$ cd helloworld
$ python manage.py startapp hello

In the hello folder create a file named resources.py:

import json
from webmachine import Resource

class Hello(Resource):

    def content_types_provided(self, req, resp):
        """" define the content type we render accoridng the Accept
        header.
        """
        return (
            ("", self.to_html),
            ("application/json", self.to_json)
        )

    def to_html(self, req, resp):
        return "<html><body>Hello world!</body></html>\n"

    def to_json(self, req, resp):
        return "%s\n" % json.dumps({"message": "hello world!", "ok": True})

Add dj-webmachine and your hello app to INSTALLED_APPS in your settings:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'webmachine',
    'helloworld.hello'
)

Put your the Hello resource in your urls.py:

from django.conf.urls.defaults import *

from helloworld.hello.resource import Hello

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^$', Hello()),
)

Launch your application:

$ python manage.py runserver

Take a look! Point a web browser at http://localhost:8000/

Or with curl:

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8000
<html><body>Hello world!</body></html>

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8000 -H "Accept: application/json"
{"message": "hello world!", "ok": true}

The first line ask the hello page as html while the second using the same url ask for JSON.

To learn how to do more interresting things, checkout some examples or read more documentations .

Release files for dj-webmachine 0.2.1

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