Django REST framework
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**Django REST framework makes it easy to build well-connected, self-describing RESTful Web APIs.**

**Author:** Tom Christie.  `Follow me on Twitter <https://twitter.com/_tomchristie>`_.

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**Important!** REST framework 2.0 is due to be released to PyPI by the end of October.
If you are considering building a new API using REST framework you should start working
with the `restframework2` branch, end refering to the upcoming [REST framework 2 docs][docs].

Overview
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Features:

* Creates awesome self-describing *web browse-able* APIs.
* Clean, modular design, using Django's class based views.
* Easily extended for custom content types, serialization formats and authentication policies.
* Stable, well tested code-base.
* Active developer community.

Full documentation for the project is available at http://django-rest-framework.org

Issue tracking is on `GitHub <https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues>`_.
General questions should be taken to the `discussion group <http://groups.google.com/group/django-rest-framework>`_.

Requirements:

* Python 2.6+
* Django 1.3+


Installation Notes
==================

To clone the project from GitHub using git::

    git clone git@github.com:tomchristie/django-rest-framework.git


To install django-rest-framework in a virtualenv environment::

    cd django-rest-framework
    virtualenv --no-site-packages --distribute env
    source env/bin/activate
    pip install -r requirements.txt # django, coverage


To run the tests::

    export PYTHONPATH=.    # Ensure djangorestframework is on the PYTHONPATH
    python djangorestframework/runtests/runtests.py


To run the test coverage report::

    export PYTHONPATH=.    # Ensure djangorestframework is on the PYTHONPATH
    python djangorestframework/runtests/runcoverage.py


To run the examples::

    pip install -r examples/requirements.txt # pygments, httplib2, markdown
    cd examples
    export PYTHONPATH=..
    python manage.py syncdb
    python manage.py runserver


To build the documentation::

    pip install -r docs/requirements.txt   # sphinx
    sphinx-build -c docs -b html -d docs/build docs html


To run the tests against the full set of supported configurations::

    deactivate  # Ensure we are not currently running in a virtualenv
    tox


To create the sdist packages::

    python setup.py sdist --formats=gztar,zip

[docs]: tomchristie.github.com/django-rest-framework