rest-framework-factory 0.2.1

A factory for createing Django Rest Framework APIs

Rest Framework Factory (DRFF)

A factory for creating Django Rest Framework APIs

• Documentation: https://rest-framework-factory.readthedocs.io.

Features

• Create a DRF API painlessly, without needing to repeat boilerplate code

Installation

• pip install rest_framework_factory

Requirements

• A Django project with at least one app’ from which you wish to build an DRF API included in INSTALLED_APPS, and with at least one model defined in models.py

How it Works

• The Factory works because a model itself contains all the information required in order to generate an API for it, including a Serializer, a Viewset, URL(s) and other optional (e.g. Forms, Filters) content
• Template files contain variable placeholders referencing the name and attributes of a model

TODOs

• WEB UI interface to generate factory apis interactively
• Configuration files (YML?) to allow fine-grained control of the factory API, e.g. by including/excluding individual models and/or fields, setting allowed methods, etc.
• Swagger
• Sphinx

Usage

Basic Usage - Manual Creation

• It is not necessary to add rest_framework_factory to INSTALLED_APPS

• One common use case is to build a factory using all the models defined in an app:

  from rest_framework_factory import factory
  drff = factory.Factory()
  drff.build_from_app('my_app')
  content = drff.apis['app']['my_app']
  with open('/tmp/drff_api.py')), 'w') as f:
      f.write(data)
  

• Once the factory file is built, it should be placed into the apps’ folder, added to INSTALLED_APPS, and have its urls wired into the project:

  mkdir my_app/drff; touch my_app/drff/__init__.py; cp /tmp/drff_api.py ./my_app/drff/api.py
  

  • settings.py:

    INSTALLED_APPS += 'my_app.drff'
    

  • urls.py:

    from my_app.drff.api import urlpatterns as drff_urls
    urlpatterns += drff_urls
    

Using the Factory UI

• TODO
  • Scan all the apps, the models therein, and their fields
  • Build forms for each model/app
  • Toggle desired models/fields on-off
  • Select serializer type (ie ModelSerializer vs ReadOnlyModelSerializer
  • Select allowed API endpoint methos (ie GET, POST)

Configuring the factory via YML

• TODO
  • Initiallize: Scan all apps, the models therein, and their fields; write structure to file
    • Manually edit file, comment out undesired fields and models, change permissions, etc
  • Implement: Read yml file, generate factory

Credits

Django

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History

0.1.0 (2019-01-22)

• First release on PyPI.