unrest_api

Lightweight Django utilities for building JSON APIs - schema-driven form views, auth endpoints, user-settings scaffolding, and helpful middleware.

Install

pip install unrest_api

Add to INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    "unrest_api",
]

Features

• unrest_api.schema.schema_form — turn a ModelForm into a JSON CRUD endpoint (GET schema, POST create, PUT partial update, DELETE).
• unrest_api.schema.UnrestForm — ModelForm base that exposes self.request so __init__, clean, and save can scope querysets and defaults to the current user.
• unrest_api.urls — drop-in auth routes (login, logout, register, settings).
• unrest_api.models.AbstractUserSettings — abstract base providing timezone and theme plus the OneToOneField to AUTH_USER_MODEL (related_name='settings').
• unrest_api.middleware.Json404Middleware — converts Http404 raised under an API prefix into JsonResponse({'error': ...}, status=404).

Quick start

# urls.py
from django.urls import include, path

urlpatterns = [
    path("api/auth/", include("unrest_api.urls")),
]

# forms.py
from unrest_api.schema import UnrestForm, register
from .models import Widget

@register
class WidgetForm(UnrestForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Widget
        fields = ["name", "color"]

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        # self.request is available here

Settings

Compatibility

• Python 3.11+
• Django 5.2+

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.

License

MIT