Delicious REST APIs with Django and Tastypie

By @sanketsaurav.

Tastypie is a webservice API framework for Django. It provides a convenient, yet powerful and highly customizable, abstraction for creating REST-style interfaces. The slide deck can be found here.

Agenda

• Brief introduction to RESTful API interfaces, CRUD, and why you should consider having an API

• Creating your first API

• Tastypie configuration and design features

• Understanding the lifetime of an API request

• Deeper look into ModelResource - general and relationship fields

• Authorization, Authentication and Caching

• Advanced data preparation

• Nested resources

• Testing

Requirements

• Python v2.7.x. If you don't have it already, you can grab it here.

• SQLite. Any recent version would do.

• Your favorite text editor. Mine's ST3.

• Google Chrome with Advanced REST Client extension for interacting with APIs.

Installation

1. Clone this repository in your workspace.

git clone git@github.com:sanketsaurav/tastypie-tutorial.git

2. Install virtualenvwrapper. Instructions specific to your OS can be found here.

3. Create a new virtualenv, and install the requirements of this project.

cd tastypie-tutorial
pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Start your Django dev server.

python manage.py runserver

5. Follow along!