Hi John, Do you have any thoughts as a result of your investigation. I too found all three mentioned above was looking into them before coming upon your thread. Thanks.
On Saturday, 7 January 2012 08:47:44 UTC-8, JohnA wrote: > > Thanks for the comments. The developer-friendly features of Django > REST framework sound very interesting. I will definitely check it > out. > > On Jan 7, 10:29 am, sbrandt <s.brandt.ber...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Thumbs up for Django REST framework. While being younger than tastypie > > and piston, it has some more cool features besides the mentioned > > creation of doc above. > > > > It also creates a HTML debug interface for every resource and follows > > the class based views and form validation paradigms of django making > > it powerful and esay to learn. It's under active development - the > > other two were not the last time I looked. > > > > On 6 Jan., 22:25, JohnA <john.armstrong....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I’ve looked on this group, stackoverflow and the web at large for > > > indication that the django community is converging on a single REST > > > API package that is “preferred” and a potential candidate for > > > inclusion in a future django distribution. So far all I’ve seen is > > > people saying positive or negative things about various packages or > > > the alternatives of writing yet another package or just winging it > > > with urlconfs and views. > > > > > It doesn’t seem to be a matter of "it depends what you want to > > > do" (though maybe required use or not of HTTP PUT and DELETE methods > > > could be a deciding factor). I’m not an expert in REST, but the basic > > > requirements seem pretty clear to me – clean urls, multiple output > > > formats (xml, json etc.) and reliable and reasonably nonintrusive > > > authentication procedures – plus of course ease of implementation > > > including achieving wide coverage of base functionality with minimal > > > incremental code. > > > > > I guess what I'm asking is, what if any REST API package is emerging > > > as the leading solution, and if none, why not? Thanks.- Hide quoted > text - > > > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
