JSON API support for Django REST Framework
- Documentation: http://django-rest-framework-json-api.readthedocs.org/
- Format specification: http://jsonapi.org/format/
By default, Django REST Framework will produce a response like:
{ "count": 20, "next": "http://example.com/api/1.0/identities/?page=3", "previous": "http://example.com/api/1.0/identities/?page=1", "results": [{ "id": 3, "username": "john", "full_name": "John Coltrane" }] }
However, for an identity
model in JSON API format the response should look
like the following:
{ "links": { "prev": "http://example.com/api/1.0/identities", "self": "http://example.com/api/1.0/identities?page=2", "next": "http://example.com/api/1.0/identities?page=3", }, "data": [{ "type": "identities", "id": 3, "attributes": { "username": "john", "full-name": "John Coltrane" } }], "meta": { "pagination": { "count": 20 } } }
- Python (2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6)
- Django (1.11)
- Django REST Framework (3.6)
$ pip install djangorestframework-jsonapi
$ git clone https://github.com/django-json-api/django-rest-framework-json-api.git $ cd django-rest-framework-json-api $ pip install -e .
$ git clone https://github.com/django-json-api/django-rest-framework-json-api.git $ cd django-rest-framework-json-api $ pip install -e . $ django-admin.py runserver --settings=example.settings
Browse to http://localhost:8000
It is recommended to create a virtualenv for testing. Assuming it is already installed and activated:
$ pip install -e . $ pip install -r requirements-development.txt $ py.test
rest_framework_json_api
assumes you are using class-based views in Django
Rest Framework.
One can either add rest_framework_json_api.parsers.JSONParser
and
rest_framework_json_api.renderers.JSONRenderer
to each ViewSet
class, or
override settings.REST_FRAMEWORK
REST_FRAMEWORK = { 'PAGE_SIZE': 10, 'EXCEPTION_HANDLER': 'rest_framework_json_api.exceptions.exception_handler', 'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS': 'rest_framework_json_api.pagination.PageNumberPagination', 'DEFAULT_PARSER_CLASSES': ( 'rest_framework_json_api.parsers.JSONParser', 'rest_framework.parsers.FormParser', 'rest_framework.parsers.MultiPartParser' ), 'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES': ( 'rest_framework_json_api.renderers.JSONRenderer', 'rest_framework.renderers.BrowsableAPIRenderer', ), 'DEFAULT_METADATA_CLASS': 'rest_framework_json_api.metadata.JSONAPIMetadata', }
If PAGINATE_BY
is set the renderer will return a meta
object with
record count and a links
object with the next and previous links. Pages
can be specified with the page
GET parameter.
This package provides much more including automatic inflection of JSON keys, extra top level data (using nested serializers), relationships, links, and handy shortcuts like MultipleIDMixin. Read more at http://django-rest-framework-json-api.readthedocs.org/