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| author | Tom Christie | 2013-08-19 20:58:28 +0100 |
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| committer | Tom Christie | 2013-08-19 20:58:28 +0100 |
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diff --git a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md index 5d6e0d91..b1ab4622 100755 --- a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ To use the `TokenAuthentication` scheme, include `rest_framework.authtoken` in y 'rest_framework.authtoken' ) -Make sure to run `manage.py syncdb` after changing your settings. +Make sure to run `manage.py syncdb` after changing your settings. The `authtoken` database tables are managed by south (see [Schema migrations](#schema-migrations) below). You'll also need to create tokens for your users. @@ -184,9 +184,11 @@ The `obtain_auth_token` view will return a JSON response when valid `username` a Note that the default `obtain_auth_token` view explicitly uses JSON requests and responses, rather than using default renderer and parser classes in your settings. If you need a customized version of the `obtain_auth_token` view, you can do so by overriding the `ObtainAuthToken` view class, and using that in your url conf instead. -#### Custom user models +#### Schema migrations -The `rest_framework.authtoken` app includes a south migration that will create the authtoken table. If you're using a [custom user model][custom-user-model] you'll need to make sure that any initial migration that creates the user table runs before the authtoken table is created. +The `rest_framework.authtoken` app includes a south migration that will create the authtoken table. + +If you're using a [custom user model][custom-user-model] you'll need to make sure that any initial migration that creates the user table runs before the authtoken table is created. You can do so by inserting a `needed_by` attribute in your user migration: @@ -201,6 +203,12 @@ You can do so by inserting a `needed_by` attribute in your user migration: For more details, see the [south documentation on dependencies][south-dependencies]. +Also note that if you're using a `post_save` signal to create tokens, then the first time you create the database tables, you'll need to ensure any migrations are run prior to creating any superusers. For example: + + python manage.py syncdb --noinput # Won't create a superuser just yet, due to `--noinput`. + python manage.py migrate + python manage.py createsuperuser + ## SessionAuthentication This authentication scheme uses Django's default session backend for authentication. Session authentication is appropriate for AJAX clients that are running in the same session context as your website. diff --git a/docs/api-guide/content-negotiation.md b/docs/api-guide/content-negotiation.md index 10288c94..2a774278 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/content-negotiation.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/content-negotiation.md @@ -43,7 +43,11 @@ This is a valid approach as the HTTP spec deliberately underspecifies how a serv It's unlikely that you'll want to provide a custom content negotiation scheme for REST framework, but you can do so if needed. To implement a custom content negotiation scheme override `BaseContentNegotiation`. -REST framework's content negotiation classes handle selection of both the appropriate parser for the request, and the appropriate renderer for the response, so you should implement both the `.select_parser(request, parsers)` and `.select_renderer(request, renderers, format_suffix)` methods. +REST framework's content negotiation classes handle selection of both the appropriate parser for the request, and the appropriate renderer for the response, so you should implement both the `.select_parser(request, parsers)` and `.select_renderer(request, renderers, format_suffix)` methods. + +The `select_parser()` method should return one of the parser instances from the list of available parsers, or `None` if none of the parsers can handle the incoming request. + +The `select_renderer()` method should return a two-tuple of (renderer instance, media type), or raise a `NotAcceptable` exception. ## Example @@ -61,6 +65,27 @@ request when selecting the appropriate parser or renderer. """ Select the first renderer in the `.renderer_classes` list. """ - return renderers[0] + return (renderers[0], renderers[0].media_type) + +## Setting the content negotiation + +The default content negotiation class may be set globally, using the `DEFAULT_CONTENT_NEGOTIATION_CLASS` setting. For example, the following settings would use our example `IgnoreClientContentNegotiation` class. + + REST_FRAMEWORK = { + 'DEFAULT_CONTENT_NEGOTIATION_CLASS': 'myapp.negotiation.IgnoreClientContentNegotiation', + } + +You can also set the content negotiation used for an individual view, or viewset, using the `APIView` class based views. + + class NoNegotiationView(APIView): + """ + An example view that does not perform content negotiation. + """ + content_negotiation_class = IgnoreClientContentNegotiation + + def get(self, request, format=None): + return Response({ + 'accepted media type': request.accepted_renderer.media_type + }) [accept-header]: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html diff --git a/docs/api-guide/generic-views.md b/docs/api-guide/generic-views.md index 67853ed0..32a4feef 100755 --- a/docs/api-guide/generic-views.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/generic-views.md @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ For more complex cases you might also want to override various methods on the vi For very simple cases you might want to pass through any class attributes using the `.as_view()` method. For example, your URLconf might include something the following entry. - url(r'^/users/', ListCreateAPIView.as_view(model=User) name='user-list') + url(r'^/users/', ListCreateAPIView.as_view(model=User), name='user-list') --- diff --git a/docs/api-guide/permissions.md b/docs/api-guide/permissions.md index 2c0a055c..c6372f98 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/permissions.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/permissions.md @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ If you need to test if a request is a read operation or a write operation, you s **Note**: In versions 2.0 and 2.1, the signature for the permission checks always included an optional `obj` parameter, like so: `.has_permission(self, request, view, obj=None)`. The method would be called twice, first for the global permission checks, with no object supplied, and second for the object-level check when required. -As of version 2.2 this signature has now been replaced with two separate method calls, which is more explict and obvious. The old style signature continues to work, but it's use will result in a `PendingDeprecationWarning`, which is silent by default. In 2.3 this will be escalated to a `DeprecationWarning`, and in 2.4 the old-style signature will be removed. +As of version 2.2 this signature has now been replaced with two separate method calls, which is more explicit and obvious. The old style signature continues to work, but its use will result in a `PendingDeprecationWarning`, which is silent by default. In 2.3 this will be escalated to a `DeprecationWarning`, and in 2.4 the old-style signature will be removed. For more details see the [2.2 release announcement][2.2-announcement]. @@ -188,6 +188,16 @@ Note that the generic views will check the appropriate object level permissions, Also note that the generic views will only check the object-level permissions for views that retrieve a single model instance. If you require object-level filtering of list views, you'll need to filter the queryset separately. See the [filtering documentation][filtering] for more details. +--- + +# Third party packages + +The following third party packages are also available. + +## DRF Any Permissions + +The [DRF Any Permissions][drf-any-permissions] packages provides a different permission behavior in contrast to REST framework. Instead of all specified permissions being required, only one of the given permissions has to be true in order to get access to the view. + [cite]: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/security/Conceptual/AuthenticationAndAuthorizationGuide/Authorization/Authorization.html [authentication]: authentication.md [throttling]: throttling.md @@ -197,3 +207,4 @@ Also note that the generic views will only check the object-level permissions fo [django-oauth2-provider]: https://github.com/caffeinehit/django-oauth2-provider [2.2-announcement]: ../topics/2.2-announcement.md [filtering]: filtering.md +[drf-any-permissions]: https://github.com/kevin-brown/drf-any-permissions diff --git a/docs/api-guide/relations.md b/docs/api-guide/relations.md index 50c9bc54..829a3c54 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/relations.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/relations.md @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ In order to explain the various types of relational fields, we'll use a couple o ## RelatedField -`RelatedField` may be used to represent the target of the relationship using it's `__unicode__` method. +`RelatedField` may be used to represent the target of the relationship using its `__unicode__` method. For example, the following serializer. @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ This field is read only. ## PrimaryKeyRelatedField -`PrimaryKeyRelatedField` may be used to represent the target of the relationship using it's primary key. +`PrimaryKeyRelatedField` may be used to represent the target of the relationship using its primary key. For example, the following serializer: @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ If you want to implement a read-write relational field, you must also implement ## Example -For, example, we could define a relational field, to serialize a track to a custom string representation, using it's ordering, title, and duration. +For, example, we could define a relational field, to serialize a track to a custom string representation, using its ordering, title, and duration. import time @@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ For more information see [the Django documentation on generic relations][generic By default, relational fields that target a ``ManyToManyField`` with a ``through`` model specified are set to read-only. -If you exlicitly specify a relational field pointing to a +If you explicitly specify a relational field pointing to a ``ManyToManyField`` with a through model, be sure to set ``read_only`` to ``True``. diff --git a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md index b627c930..bb3d2015 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md @@ -217,13 +217,31 @@ Renders data into HTML for the Browsable API. This renderer will determine whic **.charset**: `utf-8` +#### Customizing BrowsableAPIRenderer + +By default the response content will be rendered with the highest priority renderer apart from `BrowseableAPIRenderer`. If you need to customize this behavior, for example to use HTML as the default return format, but use JSON in the browsable API, you can do so by overriding the `get_default_renderer()` method. For example: + + class CustomBrowsableAPIRenderer(BrowsableAPIRenderer): + def get_default_renderer(self, view): + return JSONRenderer() + +## MultiPartRenderer + +This renderer is used for rendering HTML multipart form data. **It is not suitable as a response renderer**, but is instead used for creating test requests, using REST framework's [test client and test request factory][testing]. + +**.media_type**: `multipart/form-data; boundary=BoUnDaRyStRiNg` + +**.format**: `'.multipart'` + +**.charset**: `utf-8` + --- # Custom renderers To implement a custom renderer, you should override `BaseRenderer`, set the `.media_type` and `.format` properties, and implement the `.render(self, data, media_type=None, renderer_context=None)` method. -The method should return a bytestring, which wil be used as the body of the HTTP response. +The method should return a bytestring, which will be used as the body of the HTTP response. The arguments passed to the `.render()` method are: @@ -373,6 +391,7 @@ Comma-separated values are a plain-text tabular data format, that can be easily [rfc4627]: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt [cors]: http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/ [cors-docs]: ../topics/ajax-csrf-cors.md +[testing]: testing.md [HATEOAS]: http://timelessrepo.com/haters-gonna-hateoas [quote]: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven [application/vnd.github+json]: http://developer.github.com/v3/media/ diff --git a/docs/api-guide/responses.md b/docs/api-guide/responses.md index 399b7c23..5a42aa92 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/responses.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/responses.md @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Unless you want to heavily customize REST framework for some reason, you should Unlike regular `HttpResponse` objects, you do not instantiate `Response` objects with rendered content. Instead you pass in unrendered data, which may consist of any Python primitives. -The renderers used by the `Response` class cannot natively handle complex datatypes such as Django model instances, so you need to serialize the data into primative datatypes before creating the `Response` object. +The renderers used by the `Response` class cannot natively handle complex datatypes such as Django model instances, so you need to serialize the data into primitive datatypes before creating the `Response` object. You can use REST framework's `Serializer` classes to perform this data serialization, or use your own custom serialization. @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ The rendered content of the response. The `.render()` method must have been cal ## .template_name -The `template_name`, if supplied. Only required if `HTMLRenderer` or some other custom template renderer is the accepted renderer for the reponse. +The `template_name`, if supplied. Only required if `HTMLRenderer` or some other custom template renderer is the accepted renderer for the response. ## .accepted_renderer diff --git a/docs/api-guide/reverse.md b/docs/api-guide/reverse.md index 19930dc3..94262366 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/reverse.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/reverse.md @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The advantages of doing so are: REST framework provides two utility functions to make it more simple to return absolute URIs from your Web API. -There's no requirement for you to use them, but if you do then the self-describing API will be able to automatically hyperlink it's output for you, which makes browsing the API much easier. +There's no requirement for you to use them, but if you do then the self-describing API will be able to automatically hyperlink its output for you, which makes browsing the API much easier. ## reverse diff --git a/docs/api-guide/routers.md b/docs/api-guide/routers.md index 86582905..072a2e79 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/routers.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/routers.md @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ The example above would generate the following URL patterns: ### Extra link and actions Any methods on the viewset decorated with `@link` or `@action` will also be routed. -For example, a given method like this on the `UserViewSet` class: +For example, given a method like this on the `UserViewSet` class: @action(permission_classes=[IsAdminOrIsSelf]) def set_password(self, request, pk=None): @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ This router includes routes for the standard set of `list`, `create`, `retrieve` <tr><td>POST</td><td>@action decorated method</td></tr> </table> -By default the URLs created by `SimpleRouter` are appending with a trailing slash. +By default the URLs created by `SimpleRouter` are appended with a trailing slash. This behavior can be modified by setting the `trailing_slash` argument to `False` when instantiating the router. For example: router = SimpleRouter(trailing_slash=False) @@ -90,13 +90,13 @@ This router is similar to `SimpleRouter` as above, but additionally includes a d <tr><td>POST</td><td>@action decorated method</td></tr> </table> -As with `SimpleRouter` the trailing slashs on the URL routes can be removed by setting the `trailing_slash` argument to `False` when instantiating the router. +As with `SimpleRouter` the trailing slashes on the URL routes can be removed by setting the `trailing_slash` argument to `False` when instantiating the router. router = DefaultRouter(trailing_slash=False) # Custom Routers -Implementing a custom router isn't something you'd need to do very often, but it can be useful if you have specific requirements about how the your URLs for your API are strutured. Doing so allows you to encapsulate the URL structure in a reusable way that ensures you don't have to write your URL patterns explicitly for each new view. +Implementing a custom router isn't something you'd need to do very often, but it can be useful if you have specific requirements about how the your URLs for your API are structured. Doing so allows you to encapsulate the URL structure in a reusable way that ensures you don't have to write your URL patterns explicitly for each new view. The simplest way to implement a custom router is to subclass one of the existing router classes. The `.routes` attribute is used to template the URL patterns that will be mapped to each viewset. The `.routes` attribute is a list of `Route` named tuples. @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ The `SimpleRouter` class provides another example of setting the `.routes` attri ## Advanced custom routers -If you want to provide totally custom behavior, you can override `BaseRouter` and override the `get_urls(self)` method. The method should insect the registered viewsets and return a list of URL patterns. The registered prefix, viewset and basename tuples may be inspected by accessing the `self.registry` attribute. +If you want to provide totally custom behavior, you can override `BaseRouter` and override the `get_urls(self)` method. The method should inspect the registered viewsets and return a list of URL patterns. The registered prefix, viewset and basename tuples may be inspected by accessing the `self.registry` attribute. You may also want to override the `get_default_base_name(self, viewset)` method, or else always explicitly set the `base_name` argument when registering your viewsets with the router. diff --git a/docs/api-guide/serializers.md b/docs/api-guide/serializers.md index 8e9de10e..bbc8d019 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/serializers.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/serializers.md @@ -308,6 +308,12 @@ By default, all the model fields on the class will be mapped to corresponding se Any relationships such as foreign keys on the model will be mapped to `PrimaryKeyRelatedField`. Other models fields will be mapped to a corresponding serializer field. +--- + +**Note**: When validation is applied to a `ModelSerializer`, both the serializer fields, and their corresponding model fields must correctly validate. If you have optional fields on your model, make sure to correctly set `blank=True` on the model field, as well as setting `required=False` on the serializer field. + +--- + ## Specifying which fields should be included If you only want a subset of the default fields to be used in a model serializer, you can do so using `fields` or `exclude` options, just as you would with a `ModelForm`. @@ -397,7 +403,7 @@ You can change the field that is used for object lookups by setting the `lookup_ Not that the `lookup_field` will be used as the default on *all* hyperlinked fields, including both the URL identity, and any hyperlinked relationships. -For more specfic requirements such as specifying a different lookup for each field, you'll want to set the fields on the serializer explicitly. For example: +For more specific requirements such as specifying a different lookup for each field, you'll want to set the fields on the serializer explicitly. For example: class AccountSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer): url = serializers.HyperlinkedIdentityField( @@ -423,7 +429,7 @@ You can create customized subclasses of `ModelSerializer` or `HyperlinkedModelSe Doing so should be considered advanced usage, and will only be needed if you have some particular serializer requirements that you often need to repeat. -## Dynamically modifiying fields +## Dynamically modifying fields Once a serializer has been initialized, the dictionary of fields that are set on the serializer may be accessed using the `.fields` attribute. Accessing and modifying this attribute allows you to dynamically modify the serializer. @@ -443,7 +449,7 @@ For example, if you wanted to be able to set which fields should be used by a se # Don't pass the 'fields' arg up to the superclass fields = kwargs.pop('fields', None) - # Instatiate the superclass normally + # Instantiate the superclass normally super(DynamicFieldsModelSerializer, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) if fields: diff --git a/docs/api-guide/settings.md b/docs/api-guide/settings.md index 4a5164c9..fe7925a5 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/settings.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/settings.md @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ you should use the `api_settings` object. For example. print api_settings.DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES -The `api_settings` object will check for any user-defined settings, and otherwise fallback to the default values. Any setting that uses string import paths to refer to a class will automatically import and return the referenced class, instead of the string literal. +The `api_settings` object will check for any user-defined settings, and otherwise fall back to the default values. Any setting that uses string import paths to refer to a class will automatically import and return the referenced class, instead of the string literal. --- @@ -149,6 +149,33 @@ Default: `None` --- +## Test settings + +*The following settings control the behavior of APIRequestFactory and APIClient* + +#### TEST_REQUEST_DEFAULT_FORMAT + +The default format that should be used when making test requests. + +This should match up with the format of one of the renderer classes in the `TEST_REQUEST_RENDERER_CLASSES` setting. + +Default: `'multipart'` + +#### TEST_REQUEST_RENDERER_CLASSES + +The renderer classes that are supported when building test requests. + +The format of any of these renderer classes may be used when constructing a test request, for example: `client.post('/users', {'username': 'jamie'}, format='json')` + +Default: + + ( + 'rest_framework.renderers.MultiPartRenderer', + 'rest_framework.renderers.JSONRenderer' + ) + +--- + ## Browser overrides *The following settings provide URL or form-based overrides of the default browser behavior.* @@ -247,6 +274,40 @@ Default: `['iso-8601']` --- +## View names and descriptions + +**The following settings are used to generate the view names and descriptions, as used in responses to `OPTIONS` requests, and as used in the browsable API.** + +#### VIEW_NAME_FUNCTION + +A string representing the function that should be used when generating view names. + +This should be a function with the following signature: + + view_name(cls, suffix=None) + +* `cls`: The view class. Typically the name function would inspect the name of the class when generating a descriptive name, by accessing `cls.__name__`. +* `suffix`: The optional suffix used when differentiating individual views in a viewset. + +Default: `'rest_framework.views.get_view_name'` + +#### VIEW_DESCRIPTION_FUNCTION + +A string representing the function that should be used when generating view descriptions. + +This setting can be changed to support markup styles other than the default markdown. For example, you can use it to support `rst` markup in your view docstrings being output in the browsable API. + +This should be a function with the following signature: + + view_description(cls, html=False) + +* `cls`: The view class. Typically the description function would inspect the docstring of the class when generating a description, by accessing `cls.__doc__` +* `html`: A boolean indicating if HTML output is required. `True` when used in the browsable API, and `False` when used in generating `OPTIONS` responses. + +Default: `'rest_framework.views.get_view_description'` + +--- + ## Miscellaneous settings #### FORMAT_SUFFIX_KWARG diff --git a/docs/api-guide/testing.md b/docs/api-guide/testing.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..92f8d54a --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/api-guide/testing.md @@ -0,0 +1,257 @@ +<a class="github" href="test.py"></a> + +# Testing + +> Code without tests is broken as designed +> +> — [Jacob Kaplan-Moss][cite] + +REST framework includes a few helper classes that extend Django's existing test framework, and improve support for making API requests. + +# APIRequestFactory + +Extends [Django's existing `RequestFactory` class][requestfactory]. + +## Creating test requests + +The `APIRequestFactory` class supports an almost identical API to Django's standard `RequestFactory` class. This means the that standard `.get()`, `.post()`, `.put()`, `.patch()`, `.delete()`, `.head()` and `.options()` methods are all available. + + # Using the standard RequestFactory API to create a form POST request + factory = APIRequestFactory() + request = factory.post('/notes/', {'title': 'new idea'}) + +#### Using the `format` argument + +Methods which create a request body, such as `post`, `put` and `patch`, include a `format` argument, which make it easy to generate requests using a content type other than multipart form data. For example: + + # Create a JSON POST request + factory = APIRequestFactory() + request = factory.post('/notes/', {'title': 'new idea'}, format='json') + +By default the available formats are `'multipart'` and `'json'`. For compatibility with Django's existing `RequestFactory` the default format is `'multipart'`. + +To support a wider set of request formats, or change the default format, [see the configuration section][configuration]. + +#### Explicitly encoding the request body + +If you need to explicitly encode the request body, you can do so by setting the `content_type` flag. For example: + + request = factory.post('/notes/', json.dumps({'title': 'new idea'}), content_type='application/json') + +#### PUT and PATCH with form data + +One difference worth noting between Django's `RequestFactory` and REST framework's `APIRequestFactory` is that multipart form data will be encoded for methods other than just `.post()`. + +For example, using `APIRequestFactory`, you can make a form PUT request like so: + + factory = APIRequestFactory() + request = factory.put('/notes/547/', {'title': 'remember to email dave'}) + +Using Django's `RequestFactory`, you'd need to explicitly encode the data yourself: + + factory = RequestFactory() + data = {'title': 'remember to email dave'} + content = encode_multipart('BoUnDaRyStRiNg', data) + content_type = 'multipart/form-data; boundary=BoUnDaRyStRiNg' + request = factory.put('/notes/547/', content, content_type=content_type) + +## Forcing authentication + +When testing views directly using a request factory, it's often convenient to be able to directly authenticate the request, rather than having to construct the correct authentication credentials. + +To forcibly authenticate a request, use the `force_authenticate()` method. + + factory = APIRequestFactory() + user = User.objects.get(username='olivia') + view = AccountDetail.as_view() + + # Make an authenticated request to the view... + request = factory.get('/accounts/django-superstars/') + force_authenticate(request, user=user) + response = view(request) + +The signature for the method is `force_authenticate(request, user=None, token=None)`. When making the call, either or both of the user and token may be set. + +--- + +**Note**: When using `APIRequestFactory`, the object that is returned is Django's standard `HttpRequest`, and not REST framework's `Request` object, which is only generated once the view is called. + +This means that setting attributes directly on the request object may not always have the effect you expect. For example, setting `.token` directly will have no effect, and setting `.user` directly will only work if session authentication is being used. + + # Request will only authenticate if `SessionAuthentication` is in use. + request = factory.get('/accounts/django-superstars/') + request.user = user + response = view(request) + +--- + +## Forcing CSRF validation + +By default, requests created with `APIRequestFactory` will not have CSRF validation applied when passed to a REST framework view. If you need to explicitly turn CSRF validation on, you can do so by setting the `enforce_csrf_checks` flag when instantiating the factory. + + factory = APIRequestFactory(enforce_csrf_checks=True) + +--- + +**Note**: It's worth noting that Django's standard `RequestFactory` doesn't need to include this option, because when using regular Django the CSRF validation takes place in middleware, which is not run when testing views directly. When using REST framework, CSRF validation takes place inside the view, so the request factory needs to disable view-level CSRF checks. + +--- + +# APIClient + +Extends [Django's existing `Client` class][client]. + +## Making requests + +The `APIClient` class supports the same request interface as `APIRequestFactory`. This means the that standard `.get()`, `.post()`, `.put()`, `.patch()`, `.delete()`, `.head()` and `.options()` methods are all available. For example: + + client = APIClient() + client.post('/notes/', {'title': 'new idea'}, format='json') + +To support a wider set of request formats, or change the default format, [see the configuration section][configuration]. + +## Authenticating + +#### .login(**kwargs) + +The `login` method functions exactly as it does with Django's regular `Client` class. This allows you to authenticate requests against any views which include `SessionAuthentication`. + + # Make all requests in the context of a logged in session. + client = APIClient() + client.login(username='lauren', password='secret') + +To logout, call the `logout` method as usual. + + # Log out + client.logout() + +The `login` method is appropriate for testing APIs that use session authentication, for example web sites which include AJAX interaction with the API. + +#### .credentials(**kwargs) + +The `credentials` method can be used to set headers that will then be included on all subsequent requests by the test client. + + # Include an appropriate `Authorization:` header on all requests. + token = Token.objects.get(username='lauren') + client = APIClient() + client.credentials(HTTP_AUTHORIZATION='Token ' + token.key) + +Note that calling `credentials` a second time overwrites any existing credentials. You can unset any existing credentials by calling the method with no arguments. + + # Stop including any credentials + client.credentials() + +The `credentials` method is appropriate for testing APIs that require authentication headers, such as basic authentication, OAuth1a and OAuth2 authentication, and simple token authentication schemes. + +#### .force_authenticate(user=None, token=None) + +Sometimes you may want to bypass authentication, and simple force all requests by the test client to be automatically treated as authenticated. + +This can be a useful shortcut if you're testing the API but don't want to have to construct valid authentication credentials in order to make test requests. + + user = User.objects.get(username='lauren') + client = APIClient() + client.force_authenticate(user=user) + +To unauthenticate subsequent requests, call `force_authenticate` setting the user and/or token to `None`. + + client.force_authenticate(user=None) + +## CSRF validation + +By default CSRF validation is not applied when using `APIClient`. If you need to explicitly enable CSRF validation, you can do so by setting the `enforce_csrf_checks` flag when instantiating the client. + + client = APIClient(enforce_csrf_checks=True) + +As usual CSRF validation will only apply to any session authenticated views. This means CSRF validation will only occur if the client has been logged in by calling `login()`. + +--- + +# Test cases + +REST framework includes the following test case classes, that mirror the existing Django test case classes, but use `APIClient` instead of Django's default `Client`. + +* `APISimpleTestCase` +* `APITransactionTestCase` +* `APITestCase` +* `APILiveServerTestCase` + +## Example + +You can use any of REST framework's test case classes as you would for the regular Django test case classes. The `self.client` attribute will be an `APIClient` instance. + + from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse + from rest_framework import status + from rest_framework.test import APITestCase + + class AccountTests(APITestCase): + def test_create_account(self): + """ + Ensure we can create a new account object. + """ + url = reverse('account-list') + data = {'name': 'DabApps'} + response = self.client.post(url, data, format='json') + self.assertEqual(response.status_code, status.HTTP_201_CREATED) + self.assertEqual(response.data, data) + +--- + +# Testing responses + +## Checking the response data + +When checking the validity of test responses it's often more convenient to inspect the data that the response was created with, rather than inspecting the fully rendered response. + +For example, it's easier to inspect `request.data`: + + response = self.client.get('/users/4/') + self.assertEqual(response.data, {'id': 4, 'username': 'lauren'}) + +Instead of inspecting the result of parsing `request.content`: + + response = self.client.get('/users/4/') + self.assertEqual(json.loads(response.content), {'id': 4, 'username': 'lauren'}) + +## Rendering responses + +If you're testing views directly using `APIRequestFactory`, the responses that are returned will not yet be rendered, as rendering of template responses is performed by Django's internal request-response cycle. In order to access `response.content`, you'll first need to render the response. + + view = UserDetail.as_view() + request = factory.get('/users/4') + response = view(request, pk='4') + response.render() # Cannot access `response.content` without this. + self.assertEqual(response.content, '{"username": "lauren", "id": 4}') + +--- + +# Configuration + +## Setting the default format + +The default format used to make test requests may be set using the `TEST_REQUEST_DEFAULT_FORMAT` setting key. For example, to always use JSON for test requests by default instead of standard multipart form requests, set the following in your `settings.py` file: + + REST_FRAMEWORK = { + ... + 'TEST_REQUEST_DEFAULT_FORMAT': 'json' + } + +## Setting the available formats + +If you need to test requests using something other than multipart or json requests, you can do so by setting the `TEST_REQUEST_RENDERER_CLASSES` setting. + +For example, to add support for using `format='yaml'` in test requests, you might have something like this in your `settings.py` file. + + REST_FRAMEWORK = { + ... + 'TEST_REQUEST_RENDERER_CLASSES': ( + 'rest_framework.renderers.MultiPartRenderer', + 'rest_framework.renderers.JSONRenderer', + 'rest_framework.renderers.YAMLRenderer' + ) + } + +[cite]: http://jacobian.org/writing/django-apps-with-buildout/#s-create-a-test-wrapper +[client]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/testing/overview/#module-django.test.client +[requestfactory]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/testing/advanced/#django.test.client.RequestFactory +[configuration]: #configuration diff --git a/docs/api-guide/throttling.md b/docs/api-guide/throttling.md index d6de85ba..56f32f58 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/throttling.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/throttling.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ As with permissions, multiple throttles may be used. Your API might have a rest Another scenario where you might want to use multiple throttles would be if you need to impose different constraints on different parts of the API, due to some services being particularly resource-intensive. -Multiple throttles can also be used if you want to impose both burst throttling rates, and sustained throttling rates. For example, you might want to limit a user to a maximum of 60 requests per minute, and 1000 requests per day. +Multiple throttles can also be used if you want to impose both burst throttling rates, and sustained throttling rates. For example, you might want to limit a user to a maximum of 60 requests per minute, and 1000 requests per day. Throttles do not necessarily only refer to rate-limiting requests. For example a storage service might also need to throttle against bandwidth, and a paid data service might want to throttle against a certain number of a records being accessed. @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ You can also set the throttling policy on a per-view or per-viewset basis, using the `APIView` class based views. class ExampleView(APIView): - throttle_classes = (UserThrottle,) + throttle_classes = (UserRateThrottle,) def get(self, request, format=None): content = { @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ using the `APIView` class based views. Or, if you're using the `@api_view` decorator with function based views. @api_view('GET') - @throttle_classes(UserThrottle) + @throttle_classes(UserRateThrottle) def example_view(request, format=None): content = { 'status': 'request was permitted' @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ The throttle classes provided by REST framework use Django's cache backend. You ## AnonRateThrottle -The `AnonThrottle` will only ever throttle unauthenticated users. The IP address of the incoming request is used to generate a unique key to throttle against. +The `AnonRateThrottle` will only ever throttle unauthenticated users. The IP address of the incoming request is used to generate a unique key to throttle against. The allowed request rate is determined from one of the following (in order of preference). -* The `rate` property on the class, which may be provided by overriding `AnonThrottle` and setting the property. +* The `rate` property on the class, which may be provided by overriding `AnonRateThrottle` and setting the property. * The `DEFAULT_THROTTLE_RATES['anon']` setting. -`AnonThrottle` is suitable if you want to restrict the rate of requests from unknown sources. +`AnonRateThrottle` is suitable if you want to restrict the rate of requests from unknown sources. ## UserRateThrottle -The `UserThrottle` will throttle users to a given rate of requests across the API. The user id is used to generate a unique key to throttle against. Unauthenticated requests will fall back to using the IP address of the incoming request to generate a unique key to throttle against. +The `UserRateThrottle` will throttle users to a given rate of requests across the API. The user id is used to generate a unique key to throttle against. Unauthenticated requests will fall back to using the IP address of the incoming request to generate a unique key to throttle against. The allowed request rate is determined from one of the following (in order of preference). -* The `rate` property on the class, which may be provided by overriding `UserThrottle` and setting the property. +* The `rate` property on the class, which may be provided by overriding `UserRateThrottle` and setting the property. * The `DEFAULT_THROTTLE_RATES['user']` setting. An API may have multiple `UserRateThrottles` in place at the same time. To do so, override `UserRateThrottle` and set a unique "scope" for each class. @@ -113,11 +113,11 @@ For example, multiple user throttle rates could be implemented by using the foll } } -`UserThrottle` is suitable if you want simple global rate restrictions per-user. +`UserRateThrottle` is suitable if you want simple global rate restrictions per-user. ## ScopedRateThrottle -The `ScopedThrottle` class can be used to restrict access to specific parts of the API. This throttle will only be applied if the view that is being accessed includes a `.throttle_scope` property. The unique throttle key will then be formed by concatenating the "scope" of the request with the unique user id or IP address. +The `ScopedRateThrottle` class can be used to restrict access to specific parts of the API. This throttle will only be applied if the view that is being accessed includes a `.throttle_scope` property. The unique throttle key will then be formed by concatenating the "scope" of the request with the unique user id or IP address. The allowed request rate is determined by the `DEFAULT_THROTTLE_RATES` setting using a key from the request "scope". diff --git a/docs/api-guide/views.md b/docs/api-guide/views.md index 37ebd55f..15581e09 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/views.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/views.md @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ You won't typically need to override this method. ### .finalize_response(self, request, response, \*args, **kwargs) -Ensures that any `Response` object returned from the handler method will be rendered into the correct content type, as determined by the content negotation. +Ensures that any `Response` object returned from the handler method will be rendered into the correct content type, as determined by the content negotiation. You won't typically need to override this method. @@ -137,11 +137,11 @@ The core of this functionality is the `api_view` decorator, which takes a list o return Response({"message": "Hello, world!"}) -This view will use the default renderers, parsers, authentication classes etc specified in the [settings](settings). +This view will use the default renderers, parsers, authentication classes etc specified in the [settings]. ## API policy decorators -To override the default settings, REST framework provides a set of additional decorators which can be added to your views. These must come *after* (below) the `@api_view` decorator. For example, to create a view that uses a [throttle](throttling) to ensure it can only be called once per day by a particular user, use the `@throttle_classes` decorator, passing a list of throttle classes: +To override the default settings, REST framework provides a set of additional decorators which can be added to your views. These must come *after* (below) the `@api_view` decorator. For example, to create a view that uses a [throttle][throttling] to ensure it can only be called once per day by a particular user, use the `@throttle_classes` decorator, passing a list of throttle classes: from rest_framework.decorators import api_view, throttle_classes from rest_framework.throttling import UserRateThrottle diff --git a/docs/api-guide/viewsets.md b/docs/api-guide/viewsets.md index 25d11bfb..0c68afb0 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/viewsets.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/viewsets.md @@ -98,8 +98,10 @@ For example: from django.contrib.auth.models import User from rest_framework import viewsets + from rest_framework import status from rest_framework.decorators import action - from myapp.serializers import UserSerializer + from rest_framework.response import Response + from myapp.serializers import UserSerializer, PasswordSerializer class UserViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet): """ @@ -176,7 +178,7 @@ Note that you can use any of the standard attributes or method overrides provide permission_classes = [IsAccountAdminOrReadOnly] def get_queryset(self): - return request.user.accounts.all() + return self.request.user.accounts.all() Also note that although this class provides the complete set of create/list/retrieve/update/destroy actions by default, you can restrict the available operations by using the standard permission classes. @@ -205,9 +207,9 @@ You may need to provide custom `ViewSet` classes that do not have the full set o To create a base viewset class that provides `create`, `list` and `retrieve` operations, inherit from `GenericViewSet`, and mixin the required actions: - class CreateListRetrieveViewSet(mixins.CreateMixin, - mixins.ListMixin, - mixins.RetrieveMixin, + class CreateListRetrieveViewSet(mixins.CreateModelMixin, + mixins.ListModelMixin, + mixins.RetrieveModelMixin, viewsets.GenericViewSet): """ A viewset that provides `retrieve`, `update`, and `list` actions. diff --git a/docs/img/autocomplete.png b/docs/img/autocomplete.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 00000000..29075b25 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/img/autocomplete.png diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md index 99cd6b88..a0ae2984 100644 --- a/docs/index.md +++ b/docs/index.md @@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ The API guide is your complete reference manual to all the functionality provide * [Returning URLs][reverse] * [Exceptions][exceptions] * [Status codes][status] +* [Testing][testing] * [Settings][settings] ## Topics @@ -288,6 +289,7 @@ OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. [reverse]: api-guide/reverse.md [exceptions]: api-guide/exceptions.md [status]: api-guide/status-codes.md +[testing]: api-guide/testing.md [settings]: api-guide/settings.md [documenting-your-api]: topics/documenting-your-api.md diff --git a/docs/template.html b/docs/template.html index 27bc1062..a20c8111 100644 --- a/docs/template.html +++ b/docs/template.html @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ <li><a href="{{ base_url }}/api-guide/reverse{{ suffix }}">Returning URLs</a></li> <li><a href="{{ base_url }}/api-guide/exceptions{{ suffix }}">Exceptions</a></li> <li><a href="{{ base_url }}/api-guide/status-codes{{ suffix }}">Status codes</a></li> + <li><a href="{{ base_url }}/api-guide/testing{{ suffix }}">Testing</a></li> <li><a href="{{ base_url }}/api-guide/settings{{ suffix }}">Settings</a></li> </ul> </li> diff --git a/docs/topics/2.2-announcement.md b/docs/topics/2.2-announcement.md index 02cac129..7d276049 100644 --- a/docs/topics/2.2-announcement.md +++ b/docs/topics/2.2-announcement.md @@ -136,15 +136,15 @@ Now becomes: def has_object_permission(self, request, view, obj): return obj.owner == request.user -If you're overriding the `BasePermission` class, the old-style signature will continue to function, and will correctly handle both global and object-level permissions checks, but it's use will raise a `PendingDeprecationWarning`. +If you're overriding the `BasePermission` class, the old-style signature will continue to function, and will correctly handle both global and object-level permissions checks, but its use will raise a `PendingDeprecationWarning`. Note also that the usage of the internal APIs for permission checking on the `View` class has been cleaned up slightly, and is now documented and subject to the deprecation policy in all future versions. ### More explicit hyperlink relations behavior -When using a serializer with a `HyperlinkedRelatedField` or `HyperlinkedIdentityField`, the hyperlinks would previously use absolute URLs if the serializer context included a `'request'` key, and fallback to using relative URLs otherwise. This could lead to non-obvious behavior, as it might not be clear why some serializers generated absolute URLs, and others do not. +When using a serializer with a `HyperlinkedRelatedField` or `HyperlinkedIdentityField`, the hyperlinks would previously use absolute URLs if the serializer context included a `'request'` key, and fall back to using relative URLs otherwise. This could lead to non-obvious behavior, as it might not be clear why some serializers generated absolute URLs, and others do not. -From version 2.2 onwards, serializers with hyperlinked relationships *always* require a `'request'` key to be supplied in the context dictionary. The implicit behavior will continue to function, but it's use will raise a `PendingDeprecationWarning`. +From version 2.2 onwards, serializers with hyperlinked relationships *always* require a `'request'` key to be supplied in the context dictionary. The implicit behavior will continue to function, but its use will raise a `PendingDeprecationWarning`. [xordoquy]: https://github.com/xordoquy [django-python-3]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/install/#can-i-use-django-with-python-3 diff --git a/docs/topics/2.3-announcement.md b/docs/topics/2.3-announcement.md index 9fdebcd9..ba435145 100644 --- a/docs/topics/2.3-announcement.md +++ b/docs/topics/2.3-announcement.md @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ The `get_object` and `get_paginate_by` methods no longer take an optional querys Using an optional queryset with these methods continues to be supported, but will raise a `PendingDeprecationWarning`. -The `paginate_queryset` method no longer takes a `page_size` argument, or returns a four-tuple of pagination information. Instead it simply takes a queryset argument, and either returns a `page` object with an appropraite page size, or returns `None`, if pagination is not configured for the view. +The `paginate_queryset` method no longer takes a `page_size` argument, or returns a four-tuple of pagination information. Instead it simply takes a queryset argument, and either returns a `page` object with an appropriate page size, or returns `None`, if pagination is not configured for the view. Using the `page_size` argument is still supported and will trigger the old-style return type, but will raise a `PendingDeprecationWarning`. @@ -195,13 +195,13 @@ Usage of the old-style attributes continues to be supported, but will raise a `P 2.3 introduces a `DecimalField` serializer field, which returns `Decimal` instances. -For most cases APIs using model fields will behave as previously, however if you are using a custom renderer, not provided by REST framework, then you may now need to add support for rendering `Decimal` instances to your renderer implmentation. +For most cases APIs using model fields will behave as previously, however if you are using a custom renderer, not provided by REST framework, then you may now need to add support for rendering `Decimal` instances to your renderer implementation. ## ModelSerializers and reverse relationships The support for adding reverse relationships to the `fields` option on a `ModelSerializer` class means that the `get_related_field` and `get_nested_field` method signatures have now changed. -In the unlikely event that you're providing a custom serializer class, and implementing these methods you should note the new call signature for both methods is now `(self, model_field, related_model, to_many)`. For revese relationships `model_field` will be `None`. +In the unlikely event that you're providing a custom serializer class, and implementing these methods you should note the new call signature for both methods is now `(self, model_field, related_model, to_many)`. For reverse relationships `model_field` will be `None`. The old-style signature will continue to function but will raise a `PendingDeprecationWarning`. @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ Note that the relevant methods have always been private APIs, and the docstrings ## More explicit style -The usage of `model` attribute in generic Views is still supported, but it's usage is generally being discouraged throughout the documentation, in favour of the setting the more explict `queryset` and `serializer_class` attributes. +The usage of `model` attribute in generic Views is still supported, but it's usage is generally being discouraged throughout the documentation, in favour of the setting the more explicit `queryset` and `serializer_class` attributes. For example, the following is now the recommended style for using generic views: @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ For example, the following is now the recommended style for using generic views: queryset = MyModel.objects.all() serializer_class = MyModelSerializer -Using an explict `queryset` and `serializer_class` attributes makes the functioning of the view more clear than using the shortcut `model` attribute. +Using an explicit `queryset` and `serializer_class` attributes makes the functioning of the view more clear than using the shortcut `model` attribute. It also makes the usage of the `get_queryset()` or `get_serializer_class()` methods more obvious. @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ It also makes the usage of the `get_queryset()` or `get_serializer_class()` meth ## Django 1.3 support -The 2.3.x release series will be the last series to provide compatiblity with Django 1.3. +The 2.3.x release series will be the last series to provide compatibility with Django 1.3. ## Version 2.2 API changes diff --git a/docs/topics/ajax-csrf-cors.md b/docs/topics/ajax-csrf-cors.md index 4566f38b..0555b84d 100644 --- a/docs/topics/ajax-csrf-cors.md +++ b/docs/topics/ajax-csrf-cors.md @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ To guard against these type of attacks, you need to do two things: If you're using `SessionAuthentication` you'll need to include valid CSRF tokens for any `POST`, `PUT`, `PATCH` or `DELETE` operations. -The Django documentation describes how to [include CSRF tokens in AJAX requests][csrf-ajax]. +In order to make AJAX requests, you need to include CSRF token in the HTTP header, as [described in the Django documentation][csrf-ajax]. ## CORS diff --git a/docs/topics/browsable-api.md b/docs/topics/browsable-api.md index 85f1faff..b2c78f3c 100644 --- a/docs/topics/browsable-api.md +++ b/docs/topics/browsable-api.md @@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ To customize the default style, create a template called `rest_framework/api.htm **templates/rest_framework/api.html** {% extends "rest_framework/base.html" %} - - ... # Override blocks with required customizations + + ... # Override blocks with required customizations ### Overriding the default theme @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ All of the blocks available in the browsable API base template that can be used * `branding` - Branding section of the navbar, see [Bootstrap components][bcomponentsnav]. * `breadcrumbs` - Links showing resource nesting, allowing the user to go back up the resources. It's recommended to preserve these, but they can be overridden using the breadcrumbs block. * `footer` - Any copyright notices or similar footer materials can go here (by default right-aligned). +* `script` - JavaScript files for the page. * `style` - CSS stylesheets for the page. * `title` - Title of the page. * `userlinks` - This is a list of links on the right of the header, by default containing login/logout links. To add links instead of replace, use `{{ block.super }}` to preserve the authentication links. @@ -89,14 +90,14 @@ The browsable API makes use of the Bootstrap tooltips component. Any element wi ### Login Template -To add branding and customize the look-and-feel of the login template, create a template called `login.html` and add it to your project, eg: `templates/rest_framework/login.html`. The template should extend from `rest_framework/base_login.html`. +To add branding and customize the look-and-feel of the login template, create a template called `login.html` and add it to your project, eg: `templates/rest_framework/login.html`. The template should extend from `rest_framework/login_base.html`. You can add your site name or branding by including the branding block: {% block branding %} <h3 style="margin: 0 0 20px;">My Site Name</h3> {% endblock %} - + You can also customize the style by adding the `bootstrap_theme` or `style` block similar to `api.html`. ### Advanced Customization @@ -125,6 +126,37 @@ The context that's available to the template: For more advanced customization, such as not having a Bootstrap basis or tighter integration with the rest of your site, you can simply choose not to have `api.html` extend `base.html`. Then the page content and capabilities are entirely up to you. +#### Autocompletion + +When a `ChoiceField` has too many items, rendering the widget containing all the options can become very slow, and cause the browsable API rendering to perform poorly. One solution is to replace the selector by an autocomplete widget, that only loads and renders a subset of the available options as needed. + +There are [a variety of packages for autocomplete widgets][autocomplete-packages], such as [django-autocomplete-light][django-autocomplete-light]. To setup `django-autocomplete-light`, follow the [installation documentation][django-autocomplete-light-install], add the the following to the `api.html` template: + + {% block script %} + {{ block.super }} + {% include 'autocomplete_light/static.html' %} + {% endblock %} + +You can now add the `autocomplete_light.ChoiceWidget` widget to the serializer field. + + import autocomplete_light + + class BookSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): + author = serializers.ChoiceField( + widget=autocomplete_light.ChoiceWidget('AuthorAutocomplete') + ) + + class Meta: + model = Book + +--- + +![Autocomplete][autocomplete-image] + +*Screenshot of the autocomplete-light widget* + +--- + [cite]: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead [drfreverse]: ../api-guide/reverse.md [ffjsonview]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/jsonview/ @@ -136,4 +168,7 @@ For more advanced customization, such as not having a Bootstrap basis or tighter [bswatch]: http://bootswatch.com/ [bcomponents]: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/components.html [bcomponentsnav]: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/components.html#navbar - +[autocomplete-packages]: https://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/auto-complete/ +[django-autocomplete-light]: https://github.com/yourlabs/django-autocomplete-light +[django-autocomplete-light-install]: http://django-autocomplete-light.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#install +[autocomplete-image]: ../img/autocomplete.png diff --git a/docs/topics/credits.md b/docs/topics/credits.md index e6fb9134..e9b60074 100644 --- a/docs/topics/credits.md +++ b/docs/topics/credits.md @@ -145,6 +145,19 @@ The following people have helped make REST framework great. * Philip Douglas - [freakydug] * Igor Kalat - [trwired] * Rudolf Olah - [omouse] +* Gertjan Oude Lohuis - [gertjanol] +* Matthias Jacob - [cyroxx] +* Pavel Zinovkin - [pzinovkin] +* Will Kahn-Greene - [willkg] +* Kevin Brown - [kevin-brown] +* Rodrigo Martell - [coderigo] +* James Rutherford - [jimr] +* Ricky Rosario - [rlr] +* Veronica Lynn - [kolvia] +* Dan Stephenson - [etos] +* Martin Clement - [martync] +* Jeremy Satterfield - [jsatt] +* Christopher Paolini - [chrispaolini] Many thanks to everyone who's contributed to the project. @@ -326,3 +339,16 @@ You can also contact [@_tomchristie][twitter] directly on twitter. [freakydug]: https://github.com/freakydug [trwired]: https://github.com/trwired [omouse]: https://github.com/omouse +[gertjanol]: https://github.com/gertjanol +[cyroxx]: https://github.com/cyroxx +[pzinovkin]: https://github.com/pzinovkin +[coderigo]: https://github.com/coderigo +[willkg]: https://github.com/willkg +[kevin-brown]: https://github.com/kevin-brown +[jimr]: https://github.com/jimr +[rlr]: https://github.com/rlr +[kolvia]: https://github.com/kolvia +[etos]: https://github.com/etos +[martync]: https://github.com/martync +[jsatt]: https://github.com/jsatt +[chrispaolini]: https://github.com/chrispaolini diff --git a/docs/topics/documenting-your-api.md b/docs/topics/documenting-your-api.md index 7ee538f5..6291c924 100644 --- a/docs/topics/documenting-your-api.md +++ b/docs/topics/documenting-your-api.md @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ The most common way to document Web APIs today is to produce documentation that Marc Gibbons' [Django REST Swagger][django-rest-swagger] integrates REST framework with the [Swagger][swagger] API documentation tool. The package produces well presented API documentation, and includes interactive tools for testing API endpoints. -The pacakge is fully documented, well supported, and comes highly recommended. +The package is fully documented, well supported, and comes highly recommended. Django REST Swagger supports REST framework versions 2.3 and above. @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ There are various other online tools and services for providing API documentatio ## Self describing APIs -The browsable API that REST framwork provides makes it possible for your API to be entirely self describing. The documentation for each API endpoint can be provided simply by visiting the URL in your browser. +The browsable API that REST framework provides makes it possible for your API to be entirely self describing. The documentation for each API endpoint can be provided simply by visiting the URL in your browser. ![Screenshot - Self describing API][image-self-describing-api] @@ -93,11 +93,11 @@ You can modify the response behavior to `OPTIONS` requests by overriding the `me ## The hypermedia approach -To be fully RESTful an API should present it's available actions as hypermedia controls in the responses that it sends. +To be fully RESTful an API should present its available actions as hypermedia controls in the responses that it sends. In this approach, rather than documenting the available API endpoints up front, the description instead concentrates on the *media types* that are used. The available actions take may be taken on any given URL are not strictly fixed, but are instead made available by the presence of link and form controls in the returned document. -To implement a hypermedia API you'll need to decide on an appropriate media type for the API, and implement a custom renderer and parser for that media type. The [REST, Hypermedia & HATEOAS][hypermedia-docs] section of the documention includes pointers to background reading, as well as links to various hypermedia formats. +To implement a hypermedia API you'll need to decide on an appropriate media type for the API, and implement a custom renderer and parser for that media type. The [REST, Hypermedia & HATEOAS][hypermedia-docs] section of the documentation includes pointers to background reading, as well as links to various hypermedia formats. [cite]: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven [django-rest-swagger]: https://github.com/marcgibbons/django-rest-swagger diff --git a/docs/topics/release-notes.md b/docs/topics/release-notes.md index d379ab74..52abfc08 100644 --- a/docs/topics/release-notes.md +++ b/docs/topics/release-notes.md @@ -40,6 +40,23 @@ You can determine your currently installed version using `pip freeze`: ## 2.3.x series +### Master + +* Support customizable view name and description functions, using the `VIEW_NAME_FUNCTION` and `VIEW_DESCRIPTION_FUNCTION` settings. + +### 2.3.7 + +**Date**: 16th August 2013 + +* Added `APITestClient`, `APIRequestFactory` and `APITestCase` etc... +* Refactor `SessionAuthentication` to allow esier override for CSRF exemption. +* Remove 'Hold down "Control" message from help_text' widget messaging when not appropriate. +* Added admin configuration for auth tokens. +* Bugfix: `AnonRateThrottle` fixed to not throttle authenticated users. +* Bugfix: Don't set `X-Throttle-Wait-Seconds` when throttle does not have `wait` value. +* Bugfix: Fixed `PATCH` button title in browsable API. +* Bugfix: Fix issue with OAuth2 provider naive datetimes. + ### 2.3.6 **Date**: 27th June 2013 diff --git a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md index 2b214d6a..22d29285 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ Edit the `snippet/views.py` file, and add the following. class JSONResponse(HttpResponse): """ - An HttpResponse that renders it's content into JSON. + An HttpResponse that renders its content into JSON. """ def __init__(self, data, **kwargs): content = JSONRenderer().render(data) diff --git a/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md b/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md index c1b3d8f2..9fc424fe 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Okay, we're done. If you run the development server everything should be workin One of the big wins of using class based views is that it allows us to easily compose reusable bits of behaviour. -The create/retrieve/update/delete operations that we've been using so far are going to be pretty simliar for any model-backed API views we create. Those bits of common behaviour are implemented in REST framework's mixin classes. +The create/retrieve/update/delete operations that we've been using so far are going to be pretty similar for any model-backed API views we create. Those bits of common behaviour are implemented in REST framework's mixin classes. Let's take a look at how we can compose our views by using the mixin classes. diff --git a/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md b/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md index 2e013a94..2cf44bf9 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ We can easily re-write our existing serializers to use hyperlinking. highlight = serializers.HyperlinkedIdentityField(view_name='snippet-highlight', format='html') class Meta: - model = models.Snippet + model = Snippet fields = ('url', 'highlight', 'owner', 'title', 'code', 'linenos', 'language', 'style') diff --git a/docs/tutorial/6-viewsets-and-routers.md b/docs/tutorial/6-viewsets-and-routers.md index f16add39..8a1a1ae0 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/6-viewsets-and-routers.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/6-viewsets-and-routers.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ A `ViewSet` class is only bound to a set of method handlers at the last moment, Let's take our current set of views, and refactor them into view sets. -First of all let's refactor our `UserList` and `UserDetail` views into a single `UserViewSet`. We can remove the two views, and replace then with a single class: +First of all let's refactor our `UserList` and `UserDetail` views into a single `UserViewSet`. We can remove the two views, and replace them with a single class: from rest_framework import viewsets |
