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diff --git a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md index 035ec1d2..83ded849 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md @@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ For more information see the documentation on [content negotiation][conneg]. ## Setting the renderers -The default set of renderers may be set globally, using the `DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES` setting. For example, the following settings would use `YAML` as the main media type and also include the self describing API. +The default set of renderers may be set globally, using the `DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES` setting. For example, the following settings would use `JSON` as the main media type and also include the self describing API. REST_FRAMEWORK = { 'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES': ( - 'rest_framework.renderers.YAMLRenderer', + 'rest_framework.renderers.JSONRenderer', 'rest_framework.renderers.BrowsableAPIRenderer', ) } @@ -31,15 +31,15 @@ You can also set the renderers used for an individual view, or viewset, using the `APIView` class based views. from django.contrib.auth.models import User - from rest_framework.renderers import JSONRenderer, YAMLRenderer + from rest_framework.renderers import JSONRenderer from rest_framework.response import Response from rest_framework.views import APIView class UserCountView(APIView): """ - A view that returns the count of active users, in JSON or YAML. + A view that returns the count of active users in JSON. """ - renderer_classes = (JSONRenderer, YAMLRenderer) + renderer_classes = (JSONRenderer, ) def get(self, request, format=None): user_count = User.objects.filter(active=True).count() @@ -49,10 +49,10 @@ using the `APIView` class based views. Or, if you're using the `@api_view` decorator with function based views. @api_view(['GET']) - @renderer_classes((JSONRenderer, JSONPRenderer)) + @renderer_classes((JSONRenderer,)) def user_count_view(request, format=None): """ - A view that returns the count of active users, in JSON or JSONp. + A view that returns the count of active users in JSON. """ user_count = User.objects.filter(active=True).count() content = {'user_count': user_count} @@ -93,72 +93,6 @@ The default JSON encoding style can be altered using the `UNICODE_JSON` and `COM **.charset**: `None` -## JSONPRenderer - -Renders the request data into `JSONP`. The `JSONP` media type provides a mechanism of allowing cross-domain AJAX requests, by wrapping a `JSON` response in a javascript callback. - -The javascript callback function must be set by the client including a `callback` URL query parameter. For example `http://example.com/api/users?callback=jsonpCallback`. If the callback function is not explicitly set by the client it will default to `'callback'`. - ---- - -**Warning**: If you require cross-domain AJAX requests, you should almost certainly be using the more modern approach of [CORS][cors] as an alternative to `JSONP`. See the [CORS documentation][cors-docs] for more details. - -The `jsonp` approach is essentially a browser hack, and is [only appropriate for globally readable API endpoints][jsonp-security], where `GET` requests are unauthenticated and do not require any user permissions. - ---- - -**.media_type**: `application/javascript` - -**.format**: `'.jsonp'` - -**.charset**: `utf-8` - -## YAMLRenderer - -Renders the request data into `YAML`. - -Requires the `pyyaml` package to be installed. - -Note that non-ascii characters will be rendered using `\uXXXX` character escape. For example: - - unicode black star: "\u2605" - -**.media_type**: `application/yaml` - -**.format**: `'.yaml'` - -**.charset**: `utf-8` - -## UnicodeYAMLRenderer - -Renders the request data into `YAML`. - -Requires the `pyyaml` package to be installed. - -Note that non-ascii characters will not be character escaped. For example: - - unicode black star: ★ - -**.media_type**: `application/yaml` - -**.format**: `'.yaml'` - -**.charset**: `utf-8` - -## XMLRenderer - -Renders REST framework's default style of `XML` response content. - -Note that the `XML` markup language is used typically used as the base language for more strictly defined domain-specific languages, such as `RSS`, `Atom`, and `XHTML`. - -If you are considering using `XML` for your API, you may want to consider implementing a custom renderer and parser for your specific requirements, and using an existing domain-specific media-type, or creating your own custom XML-based media-type. - -**.media_type**: `application/xml` - -**.format**: `'.xml'` - -**.charset**: `utf-8` - ## TemplateHTMLRenderer Renders data to HTML, using Django's standard template rendering. @@ -408,13 +342,81 @@ Templates will render with a `RequestContext` which includes the `status_code` a The following third party packages are also available. +## YAML + +[REST framework YAML][rest-framework-yaml] provides [YAML][yaml] parsing and rendering support. It was previously included directly in the REST framework package, and is now instead supported as a third-party package. + +#### Installation & configuration + +Install using pip. + + $ pip install djangorestframework-yaml + +Modify your REST framework settings. + + REST_FRAMEWORK = { + 'DEFAULT_PARSER_CLASSES': ( + 'rest_framework_yaml.parsers.YAMLParser', + ), + 'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES': ( + 'rest_framework_yaml.renderers.YAMLRenderer', + ), + } + +## XML + +[REST Framework XML][rest-framework-xml] provides a simple informal XML format. It was previously included directly in the REST framework package, and is now instead supported as a third-party package. + +#### Installation & configuration + +Install using pip. + + $ pip install djangorestframework-xml + +Modify your REST framework settings. + + REST_FRAMEWORK = { + 'DEFAULT_PARSER_CLASSES': ( + 'rest_framework_xml.parsers.XMLParser', + ), + 'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES': ( + 'rest_framework_xml.renderers.XMLRenderer', + ), + } + +## JSONP + +[REST framework JSONP][rest-framework-jsonp] provides JSONP rendering support. It was previously included directly in the REST framework package, and is now instead supported as a third-party package. + +--- + +**Warning**: If you require cross-domain AJAX requests, you should generally be using the more modern approach of [CORS][cors] as an alternative to `JSONP`. See the [CORS documentation][cors-docs] for more details. + +The `jsonp` approach is essentially a browser hack, and is [only appropriate for globally readable API endpoints][jsonp-security], where `GET` requests are unauthenticated and do not require any user permissions. + +--- + +#### Installation & configuration + +Install using pip. + + $ pip install djangorestframework-jsonp + +Modify your REST framework settings. + + REST_FRAMEWORK = { + 'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES': ( + 'rest_framework_yaml.renderers.JSONPRenderer', + ), + } + ## MessagePack [MessagePack][messagepack] is a fast, efficient binary serialization format. [Juan Riaza][juanriaza] maintains the [djangorestframework-msgpack][djangorestframework-msgpack] package which provides MessagePack renderer and parser support for REST framework. ## CSV -Comma-separated values are a plain-text tabular data format, that can be easily imported into spreadsheet applications. [Mjumbe Poe][mjumbewu] maintains the [djangorestframework-csv][djangorestframework-csv] package which provides CSV renderer support for REST framework. +Comma-separated values are a plain-text tabular data format, that can be easily imported into spreadsheet applications. [Mjumbe Poe][mjumbewu] maintains the [djangorestframework-csv][djangorestframework-csv] package which provides CSV renderer support for REST framework. ## UltraJSON @@ -424,7 +426,6 @@ Comma-separated values are a plain-text tabular data format, that can be easily [djangorestframework-camel-case] provides camel case JSON renderers and parsers for REST framework. This allows serializers to use Python-style underscored field names, but be exposed in the API as Javascript-style camel case field names. It is maintained by [Vitaly Babiy][vbabiy]. - ## Pandas (CSV, Excel, PNG) [Django REST Pandas] provides a serializer and renderers that support additional data processing and output via the [Pandas] DataFrame API. Django REST Pandas includes renderers for Pandas-style CSV files, Excel workbooks (both `.xls` and `.xlsx`), and a number of [other formats]. It is maintained by [S. Andrew Sheppard][sheppard] as part of the [wq Project][wq]. @@ -433,20 +434,25 @@ Comma-separated values are a plain-text tabular data format, that can be easily [cite]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/template-response/#the-rendering-process [conneg]: content-negotiation.md [browser-accept-headers]: http://www.gethifi.com/blog/browser-rest-http-accept-headers -[rfc4627]: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt -[cors]: http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/ -[cors-docs]: ../topics/ajax-csrf-cors.md -[jsonp-security]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/613962/is-jsonp-safe-to-use [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/ [application/vnd.collection+json]: http://www.amundsen.com/media-types/collection/ [django-error-views]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/views/#customizing-error-views +[rest-framework-jsonp]: http://jpadilla.github.io/django-rest-framework-jsonp/ +[cors]: http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/ +[cors-docs]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/ajax-csrf-cors/ +[jsonp-security]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/613962/is-jsonp-safe-to-use +[rest-framework-yaml]: http://jpadilla.github.io/django-rest-framework-yaml/ +[rest-framework-xml]: http://jpadilla.github.io/django-rest-framework-xml/ [messagepack]: http://msgpack.org/ [juanriaza]: https://github.com/juanriaza [mjumbewu]: https://github.com/mjumbewu [vbabiy]: https://github.com/vbabiy +[rest-framework-yaml]: http://jpadilla.github.io/django-rest-framework-yaml/ +[rest-framework-xml]: http://jpadilla.github.io/django-rest-framework-xml/ +[yaml]: http://www.yaml.org/ [djangorestframework-msgpack]: https://github.com/juanriaza/django-rest-framework-msgpack [djangorestframework-csv]: https://github.com/mjumbewu/django-rest-framework-csv [ultrajson]: https://github.com/esnme/ultrajson |