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Updated REST framework 2 roadmap (markdown)

Tom Christie 2013-12-05 01:24:15 -08:00
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@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ Proper caching support has been discussed and @ghickman has had a first stab at
In the interests of pushing forward the state APIs, and promoting hypermedia approaches I'd strongly consider including renderers for the `HAL` and `DocJSON` hypermedia types as a baseline, with other hypermedia types aimed as third party packages. One thing that'd probably need to happen here would be for `reverse` to return a `hyperlink` type object instead of a raw string, so that hypermedia renderers can treat links appropriately. In the interests of pushing forward the state APIs, and promoting hypermedia approaches I'd strongly consider including renderers for the `HAL` and `DocJSON` hypermedia types as a baseline, with other hypermedia types aimed as third party packages. One thing that'd probably need to happen here would be for `reverse` to return a `hyperlink` type object instead of a raw string, so that hypermedia renderers can treat links appropriately.
### Pagination API overhaul
Using serializers for the pagination API is unnecessarily complex, and also doesn't allow us to easily use other pagination styles such as header based pagination links. Ideally we'd introduce a new pagination API, and include a few different default styles.
There are also a number of tasks that I think would be worth pursing as third party packages: There are also a number of tasks that I think would be worth pursing as third party packages:
* **Bulk upload views**: REST framework supports bulk uploads, but the generic views don't include it by default. A set of views that do support bulk uploads would be great. * **Bulk upload views**: REST framework supports bulk uploads, but the generic views don't include it by default. A set of views that do support bulk uploads would be great.