suqi / drf-schema-adapter

Making using Django with frontend libraries and frameworks DRYer

DRF-schema-adapter

drf-schema-adapter is a set of tools used to make it as straight-forward to declare an API endpoint as it is to declare a new ModelAdmin in Django and export the corresponding definition to frontend frameworks and libraries

Installation

drf-schema-adapter is compatible with python 2.7 and 3.4+, Django 1.8 and DRF 3.3+

With pip

pip install drf-schema-adapter

From source

Within the source directory:

python setup.py install

Demo application

You can see a demo application running at https://djembersample.pythonanywhere.com/.

Basic usage

First of all you'll need to import the default EndpointRouter in your urls.py file.

from drf_auto_endpoint.router import router

As well as add its urls to your urlpatterns in urls.py, the same way you would with DRF's DefaultRouter.

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    url(r'^api/', include(router.urls)),
    ...
]

Prototyping

The quickest way to get a working endpoint is to register a model with the router. Register accepts an optional keyword argument for the url associated to that endpoint. By default the url for an endpoint willbe app_label/verbose_name_plural

from drf_auto_endpoint.router import router
from my_app.models import MyModel, OtherModel

router.register(MyModel)
router.register(OtherModel, url='my_custom_url')

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^api/', include(router.urls)),
]

Adding schema information to your OPTIONS calls

Django REST framework provides the ability to customize thos calls thanks to metadata classes.

Setup DRF to use one of DRF-schema-adapter's metadata classes to get shcema information:

## settings.py

...
REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    'DEFAULT_METADATA_CLASS': 'drf_auto_endpoint.metadata.AutoMetadata',
}

Exporting to the frontend

First add 'export_app' to your setting's INSTALLED_APPS, then run:

./manage.py export --adapter_name EmberAdapter samples/products

Full documentation

For a (way) more complete documentation, please see http://drf-schema-adapter.readthedocs.io

Related projects

• Django:
  • Django Rest Framework
  • DRF-Base64
• Ember:
  • ember-cli-dynamic-model
  • ember-cli-crudities
• Angular:
  • angular-formly
• React: nothing so far
• Third-party adapters: nothing so far

Contibuting guide-lines

If you'd like to contibute to DRF-schema-adapter*, you are more than welcome to do so. In order to make contributing to this project a rich experience for everyone, please follow these guide-lines:

• First, fork the project with your own github account, build your code on your own repository and submit a pull-request once your contribution is ready
• Before contributing a bug-fix or new feature, create an issue explaining what the problem/need is first. When submitting your pull-request, make sure to reference the original issue
• For any code you contribute, make sure to follow PEP8 recommendation (soft line-limit 100, hard limit 120)
• For bug-fixes, please first write a test that will fail with the current code and passes using your patch. For easier evaluation, please do so in 2 separate commits
• For new features, if your feature can be implemented as a third-party app (like new adapters), please don't contribute them to this repo, publish your own application and open an issue telling us about it. We will make sure to add a link to your application in this README.
• Read and respect the Code Of Conduct

ToDo

• Write better documentation
• Write more/better tests
• Enable admin-like registration mechanism
• Add languages information when django-model-translation is installed

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