django-rest-framework/README.md

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Django REST framework

A toolkit for building well-connected, self-describing web APIs.

Author: Tom Christie. Follow me on Twitter

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Overview

This branch is the redesign of Django REST framework. It is a work in progress.

For more information, check out the documentation, in particular, the tutorial is recommended as the best place to get an overview of the redesign.

Requirements

  • Python (2.6, 2.7)
  • Django (1.3, 1.4, 1.5)

Optional:

  • Markdown - Markdown support for the self describing API.
  • PyYAML - YAML content type support.

Installation

Leaving these instructions in for the moment, they'll be valid once this becomes the master version

Install using pip...

pip install rest_framework

...or clone the project from github.

git clone git@github.com:tomchristie/django-rest-framework.git
pip install -r requirements.txt

Quickstart

TODO

Development

To build the docs.

./mkdocs.py

To run the tests.

./rest_framework/runtests/runtests.py

Changelog

2.0.0

Redesign of core components.

License

Copyright (c) 2011, Tom Christie All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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