Django Ninja Extra

Django Ninja Extra package offers a class-based approach plus extra functionalities that will speed up your RESTful API development with Django Ninja

Key features:

All Django-Ninja features :

• Easy: Designed to be easy to use and intuitive.
• FAST execution: Very high performance thanks to Pydantic and async support.
• Fast to code: Type hints and automatic docs lets you focus only on business logic.
• Standards-based: Based on the open standards for APIs: OpenAPI (previously known as Swagger) and JSON Schema.
• Django friendly: (obviously) has good integration with the Django core and ORM.

Plus Extra:

• Class Based: Design your APIs in a class based fashion.
• Permissions: Protect endpoint(s) at ease with defined permissions and authorizations at route level or controller level.
• Dependency Injection: Controller classes supports dependency injection with python Injector or django_injector. Giving you the ability to inject API dependable services to APIController class and utilizing them where needed

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Requirements

• Python >= 3.6
• django >= 2.1
• pydantic >= 1.6
• Django-Ninja >= 0.16.1

Full documentation, visit.

Installation

pip install django-ninja-extra

After installation, add ninja_extra to your INSTALLED_APPS

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...,
    'ninja_extra',
]

Usage

In your django project next to urls.py create new api.py file:

from ninja_extra import NinjaExtraAPI, api_controller, http_get

api = NinjaExtraAPI()

# function based definition
@api.get("/add", tags=['Math'])
def add(request, a: int, b: int):
    return {"result": a + b}

#class based definition
@api_controller
class MathAPI:

    @http_get('/subtract',)
    def subtract(self, a: int, b: int):
        """Subtracts a from b"""
        return {"result": a - b}

    @http_get('/divide',)
    def divide(self, a: int, b: int):
        """Divides a by b"""
        return {"result": a / b}
    
    @http_get('/multiple',)
    def multiple(self, a: int, b: int):
        """Multiples a with b"""
        return {"result": a * b}
    
api.register_controllers(
    MathAPI
)

Now go to urls.py and add the following:

...
from django.urls import path
from .api import api

urlpatterns = [
    path("admin/", admin.site.urls),
    path("api/", api.urls),  # <---------- !
]

Interactive API docs

Now go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/docs

You will see the automatic interactive API documentation (provided by Swagger UI):

Tutorials

• django-ninja - Permissions, Controllers & Throttling with django-ninja-extra! - Learn how to use permissions, controllers and throttling with django-ninja-extra
• BookStore API - A sample project that demonstrates how to use django-ninja-extra with ninja schema and ninja-jwt