django-rest-caller 0.1

Caller

# django-rest-caller
Simple django templatetag for calling an urlconf view endpoint.

## Limitations

* it works only for GET methods
* it doesn't handle request without a body
* it doen't play nice with login required views (it assumes that the caller handle everything it is required to access the endpoint)
* it assumes that the endpoint returns a json

## Installation

Add `caller.apps.CallerConfig` to `INSTALLED_APPS`

```python
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'caller.apps.CallerConfig',
...
]
```

## Usage

### call

In your template load the templatetag

```html+django
{% load caller_tags %}
```

and use the `call` tag as
```html+django
{% call 'urlconf' arg1=42 arg2='X' with param1='1' param2='2' as 'object_name' %}
```

* `'urlconf' arg1=42 arg2='X'` this is the usual {% url %} parameters
* `param1='1' param2='2'` these parameters will be converted to GET querystring
* `as 'object_name'` store the called object into object_name object. It can be a string or a variable name.

so the called url is equivalent to
```html+django
{% url 'urlconf' arg1=42 arg2='X' %}?param1=1&param2=2
```

The `call` will inject the result json object into the template context, so you can

* use as context object

```html+django
{% load caller_tags %}

{% call 'api:blog-list' as 'posts' %}
{% for post in posts %}
<div>
<h2>{{ post.title }}</h2>
<p>{{ post.body }}</p>
</div>
{% endfor %}
```

* feeding to json tag

```html+django
{% load caller_tags %}

{% call 'api:blog-list' as 'posts' %}
{{ posts|json_script:"posts-data" }}
<script>
function get_json(node) {
var el = document.getElementById(node);
return JSON.parse(el.textContent || el.innerText);
}
var posts = get_json("posts-data");
console.log(posts);
</script>
```

### json_script

This tag will backport the django >= 2.1 [`json_script`](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/templates/builtins/#json-script) filter,
which safely outputs a Python object as JSON, wrapped in a `<script>` tag, ready for use with JavaScript.

#### example

with
```python
value = {'hello': 'world'}
```

and

```html+django
{{ value|json_script:"hello-data" }}
```

will output

```html
<script id="hello-data" type="application/json">{"hello": "world"}</script>
```

and can be retrieved with

```javascript
function get_json(name) {
var el = document.getElementById(name);
return JSON.parse(el.textContent || el.innerText);
}
var data = get_json("hello-data");
console.log(data);
```

## Changes

### 0.1.0

* initial release