django-microservice-request 0.1.4.3

A Django app for set connections between microservices.

Application for make sync requests (REST API) between microservices .

For testing you should have access to 2 or more projects (at least 1 project - should be Django Project)

If you don’t have any microservice yet, please follow the link https://github.com/bandirom/DjangoTemplateWithDocker

And deploy the project use the instruction in a link above

Quick start

1. Install the package

   pip install django-microservice-request

2. Add “microservice_request” to your INSTALLED_APPS:

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       ...
       'microservice_request',
   ]

3. In settings.py set the follow settings:

   # Custom api key header
   API_KEY_HEADER = os.environ.get('API_KEY_HEADER', 'X-Custom-Header')
   # Custom api key
   API_KEY = os.environ.get('API_KEY', 'api-secret-key')
   
   # Requested header will be:
   # Authorization: X-Custom-Header api-secret-key

For key generating recommend to use https://florimondmanca.github.io/djangorestframework-api-key/

3. For example you have 2 deployed projects. First project will be ApiGateway and second will be ArticleBlog

   Create a new application for set separated route:

   docker-compose exec web python manage.py startapp router_article

   or

   python manage.py startapp router_article