Django and rest framework sample code

Functionality included

1. REST api usage and documentation sample (blogpost/views.py:BlogPostViewSet)

2. Facebook integration using django_facebook

3. Foreign key in serializer

4. django_filters : (blogpost/views.py:BlogPostFilters)

4.1 filter on Foreign key field (category__title)

4.2 Order by

5. Hyperlinked Serializer and viewset

Run:

1. Sync database : python manage.py syncdb

2. Load fixtures : python manage.py loaddata fixtureData.json

3. Run server : python manage.py runserver 8080

Django and REST Framework in nutshell

1. Create models
2. Create serializers to define fields you want to expose as api for each model.You can also add validation and derived field http://django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/fields.html#serializermethodfield
3. Create viewset and assign serializer to it.
4. Create router and register viewset

To export data from database:

python manage.py dumpdata --indent 4 > fixtureData.json