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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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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