everest 1.0b2dev

everest

everest is an extension of the popular Pyramid framework aimed at simplifying the development of REST applications in Python.

everest features in a nutshell:

• A resource declaration framework that allows you to expose an entity domain model through a REST application;

• Extensible views for performing standard CRUD operations on resources in response to REST requests;

• Representers that convert resources to string representations and vice versa for a number of MIME types (XML, ATOM, CSV, JSON);

• A repository layer permitting per-resource configuration of the storage backend to use (memory for testing, file system for small data volumes, relational database for large data volumes);

• A query language for expressing complex hierarchical queries on the resource object tree through URLs;

• A Flex client (distributed separately);

Installation

Installing everest is simple. You need

• A recent version of Python (2.7.x). See here for instructions;

• The pip Python package installer. Install in a shell with the command

  > easy_install pip

With these requirements in place, all you need to do to install everest is to issue the command

> pip install everest

Documentation

• API documentation

• A demo application.

Development

everest is hosted on github. To contribute, please fork the project and submit a pull request. Please adhere to PEP8 in your code and ensure 100% test coverage. We recommend configuring pylint with the configuration file supplied in the support directory.