What

The Django REST interface makes it easy to offer private and public APIs for existing Django models. New generic views simplify data retrieval and modification in a resource-centric architecture and provide model data in formats such as XML, JSON and YAML with very little custom code.

How

1. Checkout from source control:

  hg clone https://django-rest.googlecode.com/hg/ django-rest 

2. Run the install:

   python setup.py install

3. Add these lines to your urls.py:

  from django_restapi.model_resource import Collection
  from django_restapi.responder import XMLResponder

4. For every model you want to be part of the API, create a Collection instance in urls.py (see more elaborate examples):

  mymodel_resource = Collection(
      queryset = MyModel.objects.all(),
      responder = XMLResponder()
  )

5. Add the resource to your URL patterns:

  urlpatterns = patterns('',
     # ...
     url(r'^xml/mymodel/(.*?)/?$', mymodel_resource)
   )

Voilà! Your XML API is ready at http://yourhost/xml/mymodel/.

Support

Means to get support, in order of preference:

1. Official google group: http://groups.google.com/group/django-rest/topics
2. Raise an issue with the issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/django-rest/issues/list
3. Clone the repository and make the changes yourself (and I would love to integrate them)
4. Contact me, Andriy Drozdyuk, directly through drozzy with gmail com

About

This is a clone of django-rest-interface: http://code.google.com/p/django-rest-interface/

Why

Hopefully this clone will allow for quicker and easier patch integration, because it is hosted with mercurial.

Original Credit

Andreas Stuhlmüller