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Django Ninja Extra

Django Ninja Extra is a utility library built on top of Django Ninja for building and setting up APIs at incredible speed and performance. It adds DRF batteries to Django Ninja which are really extensible for custom use-cases.

Key features:

  • Class Based: Design your APIs in a class based fashion.
  • Async Model Fetch Support: Supports Django's ORM current async solution
  • Route Permissions: Protect endpoint(s) at ease, specific or general
  • Route Pagination: Paginate route(s) with ease

Installation

pip install django-ninja-extra

or

pip install git+https://github.com/eadwinCode/django-ninja-extra.git

Usage

In your django project next to urls.py create new api.py file:

from ninja_extra import NinjaExtraAPI
from ninja_extra import APIController, route
from ninja_extra.permissions import AllowAny
from ninja_extra.shortcuts import get_object_or_404
from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model

api = NinjaExtraAPI()
user_model = get_user_model()

@api.get("/add")
def add(request, a: int, b: int):
    return {"result": a + b}


class UserController(APIController):
    prefix: '/users'

    @route.get('/{user_id}', response=UserSchema, permissions=[AllowAny])
    def get_user(self, context, user_id: int):
        """get user by id"""
        user = get_object_or_404(user_model, pk=user_id)
        response_object = UserSchema.from_django(user)
        return response_object

    @route.retrieve(
        '/{user_id}/profile',
        response=UserProfileSchema,
        permissions=[AllowAny],
        query_set=UserProfile.objects.all(),
        lookup_url_kwarg='user_id',
        lookup_field='user'
    )
    def get_user_profile(self, context, user_id: int):
        """gets a user's profile by user id"""
        return context.object


api.register_controllers(
    UserController,
    NewsController
)

Now go to urls.py and add the following:

...
from .api import api

urlpatterns = [
    path("admin/", admin.site.urls),
    path("api/", api.urls),  # <---------- !
]

That's it !

Now you've just created an API that:

  • receives an HTTP GET request at /api/add
  • takes, validates and type-casts GET parameters a and b
  • decodes the result to JSON
  • generates an OpenAPI schema for defined operation

Interactive API docs

Now go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/docs

You will see the automatic interactive API documentation (provided by Swagger UI):

Swagger UI

What next?

  • Full documentation here - Still in progress
  • To support this project, please give star it on Github
  • Permission feature is not fully ready
  • Unit Test is in progress

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