From 7367bd53a908474f14f0f44f3744f2fcb1f4111c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jamie Matthews Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:02:21 +0200 Subject: Fix tiny typo --- docs/tutorial/quickstart.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/tutorial/quickstart.md b/docs/tutorial/quickstart.md index 85411378..851db3c7 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/quickstart.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/quickstart.md @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Notice that we're using hyperlinked relations in this case, with `HyperlinkedMod ## Views -Right, we'd better right some views then. Open `quickstart/views.py` and get typing. +Right, we'd better write some views then. Open `quickstart/views.py` and get typing. from django.contrib.auth.models import User, Group from rest_framework import generics -- cgit v1.2.3 From 7608cf1193fd555f31eb9a3d98c6f258720f8022 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Christie Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 15:07:43 +0100 Subject: Improve documentation for Requests --- docs/api-guide/requests.md | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- docs/index.md | 4 +- docs/template.html | 2 +- docs/topics/browser-enhancements.md | 43 +++++++++++++++ docs/topics/browserhacks.md | 43 --------------- 5 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-) create mode 100644 docs/topics/browser-enhancements.md delete mode 100644 docs/topics/browserhacks.md (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/api-guide/requests.md b/docs/api-guide/requests.md index 36513cd9..919e410a 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/requests.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/requests.md @@ -6,63 +6,112 @@ > > — Malcom Tredinnick, [Django developers group][cite] -REST framework's `Request` class extends the standard `HttpRequest`, adding support for parsing multiple content types, allowing browser-based `PUT`, `DELETE` and other methods, and adding flexible per-request authentication. +REST framework's `Request` class extends the standard `HttpRequest`, adding support for REST framework's flexible request parsing and request authentication. -## .method +--- -`request.method` returns the uppercased string representation of the request's HTTP method. +# Request parsing -Browser-based `PUT`, `DELETE` and other requests are supported, and can be made by using a hidden form field named `_method` in a regular `POST` form. +REST framework's Request objects provide flexible request parsing that allows you to treat requests with JSON data or other media types in the same way that you would normally deal with form data. +## .DATA +`request.DATA` returns the parsed content of the request body. This is similar to the standard `request.POST` attribute except that: -## .content_type +* It supports parsing the content of HTTP methods other than `POST`, meaning that you can access the content of `PUT` and `PATCH` requests. +* It supports REST framework's flexible request parsing, rather than just supporting form data. For example you can handle incoming JSON data in the same way that you handle incoming form data. -`request.content`, returns a string object representing the mimetype of the HTTP request's body, if one exists. +For more details see the [parsers documentation]. +## .FILES +`request.FILES` returns any uploaded files that may be present in the content of the request body. This is the same as the standard `HttpRequest` behavior, except that the same flexible request parsing that is used for `request.DATA`. -## .DATA +For more details see the [parsers documentation]. -`request.DATA` returns the parsed content of the request body. This is similar to the standard `HttpRequest.POST` attribute except that: +## .QUERY_PARAMS -1. It supports parsing the content of HTTP methods other than `POST`, meaning that you can access the content of `PUT` and `PATCH` requests. -2. It supports parsing multiple content types, rather than just form data. For example you can handle incoming json data in the same way that you handle incoming form data. +`request.QUERY_PARAMS` is a more correcly named synonym for `request.GET`. -## .FILES +For clarity inside your code, we recommend using `request.QUERY_PARAMS` instead of the usual `request.GET`, as *any* HTTP method type may include query parameters. -`request.FILES` returns any uploaded files that may be present in the content of the request body. This is the same as the standard `HttpRequest` behavior, except that the same flexible request parsing that is used for `request.DATA`. +## .parsers -This allows you to support file uploads from multiple content-types. For example you can write a parser that supports `POST`ing the raw content of a file, instead of using form-encoded file uploads. +The `APIView` class or `@api_view` decorator will ensure that this property is automatically to a list of `Parser` instances, based on the `parser_classes` set on the view or based on the `DEFAULT_PARSERS` setting. + +You won't typically need to access this property. + +--- + +**Note:** If a client sends malformed content, then accessing `request.DATA` or `request.FILES` may raise a `ParseError`. By default REST framework's `APIView` class or `@api_view` decorator will catch the error and return a `400 Bad Request` response. + +--- + +# Authentication + +REST framework provides flexbile, per-request authentication, that gives you the abilty to: + +* Use different authentication policies for different parts of your API. +* Support the use of multiple authentication policies. +* Provide both user and token information associated with the incoming request. ## .user -`request.user` returns a `django.contrib.auth.models.User` instance. +`request.user` typically returns an instance of `django.contrib.auth.models.User`, although the behavior depends on the authentication policy being used. + +If the request is unauthenticated the default value of `request.user` is an instance of `django.contrib.auth.models.AnonymousUser`. + +For more details see the [authentication documentation]. ## .auth -`request.auth` returns any additional authentication context that may not be contained in `request.user`. The exact behavior of `request.auth` depends on what authentication has been set in `request.authentication`. For many types of authentication this will simply be `None`, but it may also be an object representing a permission scope, an expiry time, or any other information that might be contained in a token-based authentication scheme. +`request.auth` returns any additional authentication context. The exact behavior of `request.auth` depends on the authentication policy being used, but it may typically be an instance of the token that the request was authenticated against. -## .parsers +If the request is unauthenticated, or if no additional context is present, the default value of `request.auth` is `None`. -`request.parsers` should be set to a list of `Parser` instances that can be used to parse the content of the request body. +For more details see the [authentication documentation]. -`request.parsers` may no longer be altered once `request.DATA`, `request.FILES` or `request.POST` have been accessed. +## .authenticators -If you're using the `rest_framework.views.View` class... **[TODO]** +The `APIView` class or `@api_view` decorator will ensure that this property is automatically to a list of `Authentication` instances, based on the `authentication_classes` set on the view or based on the `DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATORS` setting. -## .stream +You won't typically need to access this property. -`request.stream` returns a stream representing the content of the request body. +--- + +# Browser enhancments + +REST framework supports a few browser enhancments such as broser-based `PUT` and `DELETE` forms. + +## .method + +`request.method` returns the **uppercased** string representation of the request's HTTP method. + +Browser-based `PUT` and `DELETE` forms are transparently supported. -You will not typically need to access `request.stream`, unless you're writing a `Parser` class. +For more information see the [browser enhancements documentation]. -## .authentication +## .content_type + +`request.content_type`, returns a string object representing the media type of the HTTP request's body, or an empty string if no media type was provided. + +You won't typically need to directly access the request's content type, as you'll normally rely on REST framework's default request parsing behavior. + +If you do need to access the content type of the request you should use the `.content_type` property in preference to using `request.META.get('HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE')`, as it provides transparent support for browser-based non-form content. + +For more information see the [browser enhancements documentation]. + +## .stream + +`request.stream` returns a stream representing the content of the request body. -`request.authentication` should be set to a list of `Authentication` instances that can be used to authenticate the request. +You won't typically need to directly access the request's content, as you'll normally rely on REST framework's default request parsing behavior. -`request.authentication` may no longer be altered once `request.user` or `request.auth` have been accessed. +If you do need to access the raw content directly, you should use the `.stream` property in preference to using `request.content`, as it provides transparent support for browser-based non-form content. -If you're using the `rest_framework.views.View` class... **[TODO]** +For more information see the [browser enhancements documentation]. [cite]: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-developers/dxI4qVzrBY4/discussion +[parsers documentation]: parsers.md +[authentication documentation]: authentication.md +[browser enhancements documentation]: ../topics/browser-enhancements.md \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md index b3845521..322a7b27 100644 --- a/docs/index.md +++ b/docs/index.md @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ The API guide is your complete reference manual to all the functionality provide General guides to using REST framework. * [CSRF][csrf] -* [Browser hacks][browserhacks] +* [Browser enhancements][browser-enhancements] * [Working with the Browsable API][browsableapi] * [REST, Hypermedia & HATEOAS][rest-hypermedia-hateoas] * [Contributing to REST framework][contributing] @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. [settings]: api-guide/settings.md [csrf]: topics/csrf.md -[browserhacks]: topics/browserhacks.md +[browser-enhancements]: topics/browser-enhancements.md [browsableapi]: topics/browsable-api.md [rest-hypermedia-hateoas]: topics/rest-hypermedia-hateoas.md [contributing]: topics/contributing.md diff --git a/docs/template.html b/docs/template.html index 016de151..2cc52819 100644 --- a/docs/template.html +++ b/docs/template.html @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Topics diff --git a/docs/topics/rest-framework-2-announcement.md b/docs/topics/rest-framework-2-announcement.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..98e66228 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/topics/rest-framework-2-announcement.md @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +# Django REST framework 2 + +What it is, and why you should care + +> Most people just make the mistake that it should be simple to design simple things. In reality, the effort required to design something is inversely proportional to the simplicity of the result. +> +> — [Roy Fielding][cite] + +REST framework 2 is an almost complete reworking of the original framework, which comprehensivly addresses some of the original design issues. + +Because the latest version should be considered a re-release, rather than an incremental improvement, we've skipped a version, and called this release Django REST framework 2.0. + +This article is intended to give you a flavor of what REST framework 2 is, and why you might want to give it a try. + +## User feedback + +Before we get cracking, let's start with the hard sell, with a few bits of feedback from some early adopters… + +"Django REST framework 2 is beautiful. Some of the API design is worthy of @kennethreitz." - [Kit La Touche][quote1] + +"Since it's pretty much just Django, controlling things like URLs has been a breeze... I think [REST framework 2] has definitely got the right approach here; even simple things like being able to override a function called post to do custom work during rather than having to intimately know what happens during a post make a huge difference to your productivity." - [Ian Strachan][quote2] + +"I switched to the 2.0 branch and I don't regret it - fully refactored my code in another ½ day and it's *much* more to my tastes" - [Bruno Desthuilliers][quote3] + +Sounds good, right? Let's get into some details... + +## Serialization + +REST framework 2 includes a totally re-worked serialization engine, that was initially intended as a replacement for Django's existing inflexible fixture serialization, and which meets the following design goals: + +* A declarative serialization API, that mirrors Django's `Forms`/`ModelForms` API. +* Structural concerns are decoupled from encoding concerns. +* Able to support rendering and parsing to many formats, including both machine-readable representations and HTML forms. +* Validation that can be mapped to obvious and comprehensive error responses. +* Serializers that support both nested, flat, and partially-nested representations. +* Relationships that can be expressed as primary keys, hyperlinks, slug fields, and other custom representations. + +Mapping between the internal state of the system and external representations of that state is the core concern of building Web APIs. Designing serializers that allow the developer to do so in a flexible and obvious way is a deceptively difficult design task, and with the new serialization API we think we've pretty much nailed it. + +## Generic views + +When REST framework was initially released at the start of 2011, the current Django release was version 1.2. REST framework included a backport of Django 1.3's upcoming `View` class, but it didn't take full advantage of the generic view implementations. + +With the new release the generic views in REST framework now tie in with Django's generic views. The end result is that framework is clean, lightweight and easy to use. + +## Requests, Responses & Views + +REST framework 2 includes `Request` and `Response` classes, than are used in place of Django's existing `HttpRequest` and `HttpResponse` classes. Doing so allows logic such as parsing the incoming request or rendering the outgoing response to be supported transparently by the framework. + +The `Request`/`Response` approach leads to a much cleaner API, less logic in the view itself, and a simple, obvious request-response cycle. + +REST framework 2 also allows you to work with both function-based and class-based views. For simple API views all you need is a single `@api_view` decorator, and you're good to go. + + +## API Design + +Pretty much every aspect of REST framework has been reworked, with the aim of ironing out some of the design flaws of the previous versions. Each of the components of REST framework are cleanly decoupled, and can be used independantly of each-other, and there are no monolithic resource classes, overcomplicated mixin combinations, or opinionated serialization or URL routing decisions. + +## Documentation + +As you can see the documentation for REST framework has been radically improved. It gets a completely new style, using markdown for the documentation source, and a bootstrap-based theme for the styling. + +In the author's opinion, using `markdown` for documentation is a much better option that `rst`. It is intuitive and readable, and there is great tooling available, such as the [Mou][mou] editor for Mac OS X, which makes it easy and plesant to work. + +We're really pleased with how the docs style looks - it's simple and clean, and the docs build much more quickly than with the previous sphinx setup. We'll miss being able to use the wonderful [Read the Docs][readthedocs] service, but we think it's a trade-off worth making. + +Developing REST framework's documentation builder into a fully-fledged reusable project is something that we have planned for a future date. + +## The Browseable API + +Django REST framework's most unique feature is the way it is able to serve up both machine-readable representations, and a fully browsable HTML representation to the same endpoints. + +Browseable Web APIs are easier to work with, visualize and debug, and generally makes it easier and more frictionless to inspect and work with. + +With REST framework 2, the browseable API gets a snazzy new bootstrap-based theme that looks great and is even nicer to work with. + +There are also some functionality improvments - actions such as as `POST` and `DELETE` will only display if the user has the appropriate permissions. + +## Summary + +In short, we've engineered the hell outta this thing, and we're incredibly proud of the result. + +[cite]: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven#comment-724 +[quote1]: https://twitter.com/kobutsu/status/261689665952833536 +[quote2]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-rest-framework/heRGHzG6BWQ/ooVURgpwVC0J +[quote3]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-rest-framework/flsXbvYqRoY/9lSyntOf5cUJ +[mou]: http://mouapp.com/ +[readthedocs]: https://readthedocs.org/ -- cgit v1.2.3 From 51a64019260d99e3c615b407353e344cf615da1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Christie Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 18:47:17 +0100 Subject: Added @madisvain. Thanks! --- docs/topics/credits.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/topics/credits.md b/docs/topics/credits.md index 27a56326..a317afde 100644 --- a/docs/topics/credits.md +++ b/docs/topics/credits.md @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ The following people have helped make REST framework great. * Tomi Pajunen - [eofs] * Rob Dobson - [rdobson] * Daniel Vaca Araujo - [diviei] +* Madis Väin - [madisvain] Many thanks to everyone who's contributed to the project. @@ -129,3 +130,4 @@ To contact the author directly: [eofs]: https://github.com/eofs [rdobson]: https://github.com/rdobson [diviei]: https://github.com/diviei +[madisvain]: https://github.com/madisvain -- cgit v1.2.3 From d995742afc09ff8d387751a6fe47b9686845740b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Christie Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 20:04:33 +0100 Subject: Add AllowAny permission --- docs/api-guide/permissions.md | 12 ++++++++++++ docs/api-guide/settings.md | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/api-guide/permissions.md b/docs/api-guide/permissions.md index 0b7b32e9..d43b7bed 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/permissions.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/permissions.md @@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ The default permission policy may be set globally, using the `DEFAULT_PERMISSION ) } +If not specified, this setting defaults to allowing unrestricted access: + + 'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': ( + 'rest_framework.permissions.AllowAny', + ) + You can also set the authentication policy on a per-view basis, using the `APIView` class based views. class ExampleView(APIView): @@ -58,6 +64,12 @@ Or, if you're using the `@api_view` decorator with function based views. # API Reference +## AllowAny + +The `AllowAny` permission class will allow unrestricted access, **regardless of if the request was authenticated or unauthenticated**. + +This permission is not strictly required, since you can achieve the same result by using an empty list or tuple for the permissions setting, but you may find it useful to specify this class because it makes the intention explicit. + ## IsAuthenticated The `IsAuthenticated` permission class will deny permission to any unauthenticated user, and allow permission otherwise. diff --git a/docs/api-guide/settings.md b/docs/api-guide/settings.md index 21efc853..3556a5b1 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/settings.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/settings.md @@ -72,7 +72,11 @@ Default: A list or tuple of permission classes, that determines the default set of permissions checked at the start of a view. -Default: `()` +Default: + + ( + 'rest_framework.permissions.AllowAny', + ) ## DEFAULT_THROTTLE_CLASSES -- cgit v1.2.3 From 12c363c1fe237d0357e6020b44890926856b9191 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Christie Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:12:56 +0000 Subject: TemplateHTMLRenderer, StaticHTMLRenderer --- docs/api-guide/renderers.md | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md index b5e2fe8f..5efb3610 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md @@ -106,12 +106,12 @@ If you are considering using `XML` for your API, you may want to consider implem **.format**: `'.xml'` -## HTMLRenderer +## TemplateHTMLRenderer Renders data to HTML, using Django's standard template rendering. Unlike other renderers, the data passed to the `Response` does not need to be serialized. Also, unlike other renderers, you may want to include a `template_name` argument when creating the `Response`. -The HTMLRenderer will create a `RequestContext`, using the `response.data` as the context dict, and determine a template name to use to render the context. +The TemplateHTMLRenderer will create a `RequestContext`, using the `response.data` as the context dict, and determine a template name to use to render the context. The template name is determined by (in order of preference): @@ -119,27 +119,49 @@ The template name is determined by (in order of preference): 2. An explicit `.template_name` attribute set on this class. 3. The return result of calling `view.get_template_names()`. -An example of a view that uses `HTMLRenderer`: +An example of a view that uses `TemplateHTMLRenderer`: class UserInstance(generics.RetrieveUserAPIView): """ A view that returns a templated HTML representations of a given user. """ model = Users - renderer_classes = (HTMLRenderer,) + renderer_classes = (TemplateHTMLRenderer,) def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs) self.object = self.get_object() return Response({'user': self.object}, template_name='user_detail.html') -You can use `HTMLRenderer` either to return regular HTML pages using REST framework, or to return both HTML and API responses from a single endpoint. +You can use `TemplateHTMLRenderer` either to return regular HTML pages using REST framework, or to return both HTML and API responses from a single endpoint. -If you're building websites that use `HTMLRenderer` along with other renderer classes, you should consider listing `HTMLRenderer` as the first class in the `renderer_classes` list, so that it will be prioritised first even for browsers that send poorly formed `ACCEPT:` headers. +If you're building websites that use `TemplateHTMLRenderer` along with other renderer classes, you should consider listing `TemplateHTMLRenderer` as the first class in the `renderer_classes` list, so that it will be prioritised first even for browsers that send poorly formed `ACCEPT:` headers. **.media_type**: `text/html` **.format**: `'.html'` +See also: `StaticHTMLRenderer` + +## StaticHTMLRenderer + +A simple renderer that simply returns pre-rendered HTML. Unlike other renderers, the data passed to the response object should be a string representing the content to be returned. + +An example of a view that uses `TemplateHTMLRenderer`: + + @api_view(('GET',)) + @renderer_classes((StaticHTMLRenderer,)) + def simple_html_view(request): + data = '

Hello, world

' + return Response(data) + +You can use `TemplateHTMLRenderer` either to return regular HTML pages using REST framework, or to return both HTML and API responses from a single endpoint. + +**.media_type**: `text/html` + +**.format**: `'.html'` + +See also: `TemplateHTMLRenderer` + ## BrowsableAPIRenderer Renders data into HTML for the Browseable API. This renderer will determine which other renderer would have been given highest priority, and use that to display an API style response within the HTML page. @@ -207,7 +229,7 @@ In some cases you might want your view to use different serialization styles dep For example: @api_view(('GET',)) - @renderer_classes((HTMLRenderer, JSONRenderer)) + @renderer_classes((TemplateHTMLRenderer, JSONRenderer)) def list_users(request): """ A view that can return JSON or HTML representations @@ -215,9 +237,9 @@ For example: """ queryset = Users.objects.filter(active=True) - if request.accepted_media_type == 'text/html': + if request.accepted_renderer.format == 'html': # TemplateHTMLRenderer takes a context dict, - # and additionally requiresa 'template_name'. + # and additionally requires a 'template_name'. # It does not require serialization. data = {'users': queryset} return Response(data, template_name='list_users.html') -- cgit v1.2.3 From fde79376f323708d9f7b80ee830fe63060fb335f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Christie Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:25:51 +0000 Subject: Pastebin tutorial --- docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md | 180 ++++++++++++-------- docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md | 45 +++-- docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md | 88 +++++----- docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md | 183 +++++++++++++++++++++ .../4-authentication-permissions-and-throttling.md | 5 - .../5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md | 158 +++++++++++++++++- 6 files changed, 512 insertions(+), 147 deletions(-) create mode 100644 docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md delete mode 100644 docs/tutorial/4-authentication-permissions-and-throttling.md (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md index d1ae0ba5..fc052202 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md @@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ ## Introduction -This tutorial will walk you through the building blocks that make up REST framework. It'll take a little while to get through, but it'll give you a comprehensive understanding of how everything fits together. +This tutorial will cover creating a simple pastebin code highlighting Web API. Along the way it will introduce the various components that make up REST framework, and give you a comprehensive understanding of how everything fits together. + +The tutorial is fairly in-depth, so you should probably get a cookie and a cup of your favorite brew before getting started. If you just want a quick overview, you should head over to the [quickstart] documentation instead. ## Setting up a new environment @@ -17,6 +19,7 @@ Now that we're inside a virtualenv environment, we can install our package requi pip install django pip install djangorestframework + pip install pygments # We'll be using this for the code highlighting **Note:** To exit the virtualenv environment at any time, just type `deactivate`. For more information see the [virtualenv documentation][virtualenv]. @@ -30,8 +33,9 @@ To get started, let's create a new project to work with. cd tutorial Once that's done we can create an app that we'll use to create a simple Web API. +We're going to create a project that - python manage.py startapp blog + python manage.py startapp snippets The simplest way to get up and running will probably be to use an `sqlite3` database for the tutorial. Edit the `tutorial/settings.py` file, and set the default database `"ENGINE"` to `"sqlite3"`, and `"NAME"` to `"tmp.db"`. @@ -46,32 +50,48 @@ The simplest way to get up and running will probably be to use an `sqlite3` data } } -We'll also need to add our new `blog` app and the `rest_framework` app to `INSTALLED_APPS`. +We'll also need to add our new `snippets` app and the `rest_framework` app to `INSTALLED_APPS`. INSTALLED_APPS = ( ... 'rest_framework', - 'blog' + 'snippets' ) -We also need to wire up the root urlconf, in the `tutorial/urls.py` file, to include our blog views. +We also need to wire up the root urlconf, in the `tutorial/urls.py` file, to include our snippet views. urlpatterns = patterns('', - url(r'^', include('blog.urls')), + url(r'^', include('snippets.urls')), ) Okay, we're ready to roll. ## Creating a model to work with -For the purposes of this tutorial we're going to start by creating a simple `Comment` model that is used to store comments against a blog post. Go ahead and edit the `blog` app's `models.py` file. +For the purposes of this tutorial we're going to start by creating a simple `Snippet` model that is used to store code snippets. Go ahead and edit the `snippets` app's `models.py` file. from django.db import models - - class Comment(models.Model): - email = models.EmailField() - content = models.CharField(max_length=200) + from pygments.lexers import get_all_lexers + from pygments.styles import get_all_styles + + LANGUAGE_CHOICES = sorted([(item[1][0], item[0]) for item in get_all_lexers()]) + STYLE_CHOICES = sorted((item, item) for item in list(get_all_styles())) + + + class Snippet(models.Model): created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) + title = models.CharField(max_length=100, default='') + code = models.TextField() + linenos = models.BooleanField(default=False) + language = models.CharField(choices=LANGUAGE_CHOICES, + default='python', + max_length=100) + style = models.CharField(choices=STYLE_CHOICES, + default='friendly', + max_length=100) + + class Meta: + ordering = ('created',) Don't forget to sync the database for the first time. @@ -79,28 +99,40 @@ Don't forget to sync the database for the first time. ## Creating a Serializer class -We're going to create a simple Web API that we can use to edit these comment objects with. The first thing we need is a way of serializing and deserializing the objects into representations such as `json`. We do this by declaring serializers that work very similarly to Django's forms. Create a file in the `blog` directory named `serializers.py` and add the following. +The first thing we need to get started on our Web API is provide a way of serializing and deserializing the snippet instances into representations such as `json`. We can do this by declaring serializers that work very similarly to Django's forms. Create a file in the `snippets` directory named `serializers.py` and add the following. - from blog import models + from django.forms import widgets from rest_framework import serializers - - - class CommentSerializer(serializers.Serializer): - id = serializers.IntegerField(readonly=True) - email = serializers.EmailField() - content = serializers.CharField(max_length=200) - created = serializers.DateTimeField(readonly=True) - + from snippets import models + + + class SnippetSerializer(serializers.Serializer): + pk = serializers.Field() # Note: `Field` is an untyped read-only field. + title = serializers.CharField(required=False, + max_length=100) + code = serializers.CharField(widget=widgets.Textarea, + max_length=100000) + linenos = serializers.BooleanField(required=False) + language = serializers.ChoiceField(choices=models.LANGUAGE_CHOICES, + default='python') + style = serializers.ChoiceField(choices=models.STYLE_CHOICES, + default='friendly') + def restore_object(self, attrs, instance=None): """ - Create or update a new comment instance. + Create or update a new snippet instance. """ if instance: - instance.email = attrs['email'] - instance.content = attrs['content'] - instance.created = attrs['created'] + # Update existing instance + instance.title = attrs['title'] + instance.code = attrs['code'] + instance.linenos = attrs['linenos'] + instance.language = attrs['language'] + instance.style = attrs['style'] return instance - return models.Comment(**attrs) + + # Create new instance + return models.Snippet(**attrs) The first part of serializer class defines the fields that get serialized/deserialized. The `restore_object` method defines how fully fledged instances get created when deserializing data. @@ -112,31 +144,27 @@ Before we go any further we'll familiarise ourselves with using our new Serializ python manage.py shell -Okay, once we've got a few imports out of the way, we'd better create a few comments to work with. +Okay, once we've got a few imports out of the way, let's create a code snippet to work with. - from blog.models import Comment - from blog.serializers import CommentSerializer + from snippets.models import Snippet + from snippets.serializers import SnippetSerializer from rest_framework.renderers import JSONRenderer from rest_framework.parsers import JSONParser - c1 = Comment(email='leila@example.com', content='nothing to say') - c2 = Comment(email='tom@example.com', content='foo bar') - c3 = Comment(email='anna@example.com', content='LOLZ!') - c1.save() - c2.save() - c3.save() + snippet = Snippet(code='print "hello, world"\n') + snippet.save() -We've now got a few comment instances to play with. Let's take a look at serializing one of those instances. +We've now got a few snippet instances to play with. Let's take a look at serializing one of those instances. - serializer = CommentSerializer(instance=c1) + serializer = SnippetSerializer(instance=snippet) serializer.data - # {'id': 1, 'email': u'leila@example.com', 'content': u'nothing to say', 'created': datetime.datetime(2012, 8, 22, 16, 20, 9, 822774, tzinfo=)} + # {'pk': 1, 'title': u'', 'code': u'print "hello, world"\n', 'linenos': False, 'language': u'python', 'style': u'friendly'} At this point we've translated the model instance into python native datatypes. To finalise the serialization process we render the data into `json`. content = JSONRenderer().render(serializer.data) content - # '{"id": 1, "email": "leila@example.com", "content": "nothing to say", "created": "2012-08-22T16:20:09.822"}' + # '{"pk": 1, "title": "", "code": "print \\"hello, world\\"\\n", "linenos": false, "language": "python", "style": "friendly"}' Deserialization is similar. First we parse a stream into python native datatypes... @@ -147,28 +175,45 @@ Deserialization is similar. First we parse a stream into python native datatype ...then we restore those native datatypes into to a fully populated object instance. - serializer = CommentSerializer(data) + serializer = SnippetSerializer(data) serializer.is_valid() # True serializer.object - # + # Notice how similar the API is to working with forms. The similarity should become even more apparent when we start writing views that use our serializer. -## Writing regular Django views using our Serializers +## Using ModelSerializers + +Our `SnippetSerializer` class is replicating a lot of information that's also contained in the `Snippet` model. It would be nice if we could keep out code a bit more concise. + +In the same way that Django provides both `Form` classes and `ModelForm` classes, REST framework includes both `Serializer` classes, and `ModelSerializer` classes. + +Let's look at refactoring our serializer using the `ModelSerializer` class. +Open the file `snippets/serializers.py` again, and edit the `SnippetSerializer` class. + + class SnippetSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): + class Meta: + model = models.Snippet + fields = ('pk', 'title', 'code', 'linenos', 'language', 'style') + + + +## Writing regular Django views using our Serializer Let's see how we can write some API views using our new Serializer class. +For the moment we won't use any of REST framework's other features, we'll just write the views as regular Django views. + We'll start off by creating a subclass of HttpResponse that we can use to render any data we return into `json`. -Edit the `blog/views.py` file, and add the following. +Edit the `snippet/views.py` file, and add the following. - from blog.models import Comment - from blog.serializers import CommentSerializer from django.http import HttpResponse from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt from rest_framework.renderers import JSONRenderer from rest_framework.parsers import JSONParser - + from snippets.models import Snippet + from snippets.serializers import SnippetSerializer class JSONResponse(HttpResponse): """ @@ -181,67 +226,65 @@ Edit the `blog/views.py` file, and add the following. super(JSONResponse, self).__init__(content, **kwargs) -The root of our API is going to be a view that supports listing all the existing comments, or creating a new comment. +The root of our API is going to be a view that supports listing all the existing snippets, or creating a new snippet. @csrf_exempt - def comment_root(request): + def snippet_list(request): """ - List all comments, or create a new comment. + List all code snippets, or create a new snippet. """ if request.method == 'GET': - comments = Comment.objects.all() - serializer = CommentSerializer(instance=comments) + snippets = Snippet.objects.all() + serializer = SnippetSerializer(instance=snippets) return JSONResponse(serializer.data) elif request.method == 'POST': data = JSONParser().parse(request) - serializer = CommentSerializer(data) + serializer = SnippetSerializer(data) if serializer.is_valid(): - comment = serializer.object - comment.save() + serializer.save() return JSONResponse(serializer.data, status=201) else: return JSONResponse(serializer.errors, status=400) Note that because we want to be able to POST to this view from clients that won't have a CSRF token we need to mark the view as `csrf_exempt`. This isn't something that you'd normally want to do, and REST framework views actually use more sensible behavior than this, but it'll do for our purposes right now. -We'll also need a view which corresponds to an individual comment, and can be used to retrieve, update or delete the comment. +We'll also need a view which corresponds to an individual snippet, and can be used to retrieve, update or delete the snippet. @csrf_exempt - def comment_instance(request, pk): + def snippet_detail(request, pk): """ - Retrieve, update or delete a comment instance. + Retrieve, update or delete a code snippet. """ try: - comment = Comment.objects.get(pk=pk) - except Comment.DoesNotExist: + snippet = Snippet.objects.get(pk=pk) + except Snippet.DoesNotExist: return HttpResponse(status=404) if request.method == 'GET': - serializer = CommentSerializer(instance=comment) + serializer = SnippetSerializer(instance=snippet) return JSONResponse(serializer.data) elif request.method == 'PUT': data = JSONParser().parse(request) - serializer = CommentSerializer(data, instance=comment) + serializer = SnippetSerializer(data, instance=snippet) if serializer.is_valid(): - comment = serializer.object - comment.save() + serializer.save() return JSONResponse(serializer.data) else: return JSONResponse(serializer.errors, status=400) elif request.method == 'DELETE': - comment.delete() + snippet.delete() return HttpResponse(status=204) -Finally we need to wire these views up. Create the `blog/urls.py` file: +Finally we need to wire these views up. Create the `snippet/urls.py` file: from django.conf.urls import patterns, url - urlpatterns = patterns('blog.views', - url(r'^$', 'comment_root'), - url(r'^(?P[0-9]+)$', 'comment_instance') + urlpatterns = patterns('snippets.views', + url(r'^snippet/$', 'snippet_list'), + url(r'^snippet/(?P[0-9]+)/$', 'snippet_detail') ) It's worth noting that there's a couple of edge cases we're not dealing with properly at the moment. If we send malformed `json`, or if a request is made with a method that the view doesn't handle, then we'll end up with a 500 "server error" response. Still, this'll do for now. @@ -260,5 +303,6 @@ Our API views don't do anything particularly special at the moment, beyond serve We'll see how we can start to improve things in [part 2 of the tutorial][tut-2]. +[quickstart]: quickstart.md [virtualenv]: http://www.virtualenv.org/en/latest/index.html [tut-2]: 2-requests-and-responses.md diff --git a/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md b/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md index fc37322a..76803d24 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md @@ -38,27 +38,27 @@ Okay, let's go ahead and start using these new components to write a few views. We don't need our `JSONResponse` class anymore, so go ahead and delete that. Once that's done we can start refactoring our views slightly. - from blog.models import Comment - from blog.serializers import CommentSerializer from rest_framework import status from rest_framework.decorators import api_view from rest_framework.response import Response + from snippet.models import Snippet + from snippet.serializers import SnippetSerializer + @api_view(['GET', 'POST']) - def comment_root(request): + def snippet_list(request): """ - List all comments, or create a new comment. + List all snippets, or create a new snippet. """ if request.method == 'GET': - comments = Comment.objects.all() - serializer = CommentSerializer(instance=comments) + snippets = Snippet.objects.all() + serializer = SnippetSerializer(instance=snippets) return Response(serializer.data) elif request.method == 'POST': - serializer = CommentSerializer(request.DATA) + serializer = SnippetSerializer(request.DATA) if serializer.is_valid(): - comment = serializer.object - comment.save() + serializer.save() return Response(serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED) else: return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST) @@ -67,30 +67,29 @@ We don't need our `JSONResponse` class anymore, so go ahead and delete that. On Our instance view is an improvement over the previous example. It's a little more concise, and the code now feels very similar to if we were working with the Forms API. We're also using named status codes, which makes the response meanings more obvious. @api_view(['GET', 'PUT', 'DELETE']) - def comment_instance(request, pk): + def snippet_detail(request, pk): """ - Retrieve, update or delete a comment instance. + Retrieve, update or delete a snippet instance. """ try: - comment = Comment.objects.get(pk=pk) - except Comment.DoesNotExist: + snippet = Snippet.objects.get(pk=pk) + except Snippet.DoesNotExist: return Response(status=status.HTTP_404_NOT_FOUND) if request.method == 'GET': - serializer = CommentSerializer(instance=comment) + serializer = SnippetSerializer(instance=snippet) return Response(serializer.data) elif request.method == 'PUT': - serializer = CommentSerializer(request.DATA, instance=comment) + serializer = SnippetSerializer(request.DATA, instance=snippet) if serializer.is_valid(): - comment = serializer.object - comment.save() + serializer.save() return Response(serializer.data) else: return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST) elif request.method == 'DELETE': - comment.delete() + snippet.delete() return Response(status=status.HTTP_204_NO_CONTENT) This should all feel very familiar - there's not a lot different to working with regular Django views. @@ -103,20 +102,20 @@ To take advantage of the fact that our responses are no longer hardwired to a si Start by adding a `format` keyword argument to both of the views, like so. - def comment_root(request, format=None): + def snippet_list(request, format=None): and - def comment_instance(request, pk, format=None): + def snippet_detail(request, pk, format=None): Now update the `urls.py` file slightly, to append a set of `format_suffix_patterns` in addition to the existing URLs. from django.conf.urls import patterns, url from rest_framework.urlpatterns import format_suffix_patterns - urlpatterns = patterns('blog.views', - url(r'^$', 'comment_root'), - url(r'^(?P[0-9]+)$', 'comment_instance') + urlpatterns = patterns('snippet.views', + url(r'^$', 'snippet_list'), + url(r'^(?P[0-9]+)$', 'snippet_detail') ) urlpatterns = format_suffix_patterns(urlpatterns) diff --git a/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md b/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md index 0ee81ea3..3d58fe8e 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md @@ -6,61 +6,59 @@ We can also write our API views using class based views, rather than function ba We'll start by rewriting the root view as a class based view. All this involves is a little bit of refactoring. - from blog.models import Comment - from blog.serializers import CommentSerializer + from snippet.models import Snippet + from snippet.serializers import SnippetSerializer from django.http import Http404 from rest_framework.views import APIView from rest_framework.response import Response from rest_framework import status - class CommentRoot(APIView): + class SnippetList(APIView): """ - List all comments, or create a new comment. + List all snippets, or create a new snippet. """ def get(self, request, format=None): - comments = Comment.objects.all() - serializer = CommentSerializer(instance=comments) + snippets = Snippet.objects.all() + serializer = SnippetSerializer(instance=snippets) return Response(serializer.data) def post(self, request, format=None): - serializer = CommentSerializer(request.DATA) + serializer = SnippetSerializer(request.DATA) if serializer.is_valid(): - comment = serializer.object - comment.save() + serializer.save() return Response(serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED) return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST) So far, so good. It looks pretty similar to the previous case, but we've got better separation between the different HTTP methods. We'll also need to update the instance view. - class CommentInstance(APIView): + class SnippetDetail(APIView): """ - Retrieve, update or delete a comment instance. + Retrieve, update or delete a snippet instance. """ def get_object(self, pk): try: - return Comment.objects.get(pk=pk) - except Comment.DoesNotExist: + return Snippet.objects.get(pk=pk) + except Snippet.DoesNotExist: raise Http404 def get(self, request, pk, format=None): - comment = self.get_object(pk) - serializer = CommentSerializer(instance=comment) + snippet = self.get_object(pk) + serializer = SnippetSerializer(instance=snippet) return Response(serializer.data) def put(self, request, pk, format=None): - comment = self.get_object(pk) - serializer = CommentSerializer(request.DATA, instance=comment) + snippet = self.get_object(pk) + serializer = SnippetSerializer(request.DATA, instance=snippet) if serializer.is_valid(): - comment = serializer.object - comment.save() + serializer.save() return Response(serializer.data) return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST) def delete(self, request, pk, format=None): - comment = self.get_object(pk) - comment.delete() + snippet = self.get_object(pk) + snippet.delete() return Response(status=status.HTTP_204_NO_CONTENT) That's looking good. Again, it's still pretty similar to the function based view right now. @@ -69,11 +67,11 @@ We'll also need to refactor our URLconf slightly now we're using class based vie from django.conf.urls import patterns, url from rest_framework.urlpatterns import format_suffix_patterns - from blogpost import views + from snippetpost import views urlpatterns = patterns('', - url(r'^$', views.CommentRoot.as_view()), - url(r'^(?P[0-9]+)$', views.CommentInstance.as_view()) + url(r'^$', views.SnippetList.as_view()), + url(r'^(?P[0-9]+)$', views.SnippetDetail.as_view()) ) urlpatterns = format_suffix_patterns(urlpatterns) @@ -88,16 +86,16 @@ The create/retrieve/update/delete operations that we've been using so far are go Let's take a look at how we can compose our views by using the mixin classes. - from blog.models import Comment - from blog.serializers import CommentSerializer + from snippet.models import Snippet + from snippet.serializers import SnippetSerializer from rest_framework import mixins from rest_framework import generics - class CommentRoot(mixins.ListModelMixin, + class SnippetList(mixins.ListModelMixin, mixins.CreateModelMixin, generics.MultipleObjectBaseView): - model = Comment - serializer_class = CommentSerializer + model = Snippet + serializer_class = SnippetSerializer def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs): return self.list(request, *args, **kwargs) @@ -109,12 +107,12 @@ We'll take a moment to examine exactly what's happening here - We're building ou The base class provides the core functionality, and the mixin classes provide the `.list()` and `.create()` actions. We're then explicitly binding the `get` and `post` methods to the appropriate actions. Simple enough stuff so far. - class CommentInstance(mixins.RetrieveModelMixin, - mixins.UpdateModelMixin, - mixins.DestroyModelMixin, - generics.SingleObjectBaseView): - model = Comment - serializer_class = CommentSerializer + class SnippetDetail(mixins.RetrieveModelMixin, + mixins.UpdateModelMixin, + mixins.DestroyModelMixin, + generics.SingleObjectBaseView): + model = Snippet + serializer_class = SnippetSerializer def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs): return self.retrieve(request, *args, **kwargs) @@ -131,23 +129,23 @@ Pretty similar. This time we're using the `SingleObjectBaseView` class to provi Using the mixin classes we've rewritten the views to use slightly less code than before, but we can go one step further. REST framework provides a set of already mixed-in generic views that we can use. - from blog.models import Comment - from blog.serializers import CommentSerializer + from snippet.models import Snippet + from snippet.serializers import SnippetSerializer from rest_framework import generics - class CommentRoot(generics.ListCreateAPIView): - model = Comment - serializer_class = CommentSerializer + class SnippetList(generics.ListCreateAPIView): + model = Snippet + serializer_class = SnippetSerializer - class CommentInstance(generics.RetrieveUpdateDestroyAPIView): - model = Comment - serializer_class = CommentSerializer + class SnippetDetail(generics.RetrieveUpdateDestroyAPIView): + model = Snippet + serializer_class = SnippetSerializer Wow, that's pretty concise. We've got a huge amount for free, and our code looks like good, clean, idiomatic Django. -Next we'll move onto [part 4 of the tutorial][tut-4], where we'll take a look at how we can customize the behavior of our views to support a range of authentication, permissions, throttling and other aspects. +Next we'll move onto [part 4 of the tutorial][tut-4], where we'll take a look at how we can deal with authentication and permissions for our API. [dry]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_repeat_yourself -[tut-4]: 4-authentication-permissions-and-throttling.md +[tut-4]: 4-authentication-and-permissions.md diff --git a/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md b/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..79436ad4 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md @@ -0,0 +1,183 @@ +# Tutorial 4: Authentication & Permissions + +Currently our API doesn't have any restrictions on who can + + +## Adding information to our model + +We're going to make a couple of changes to our `Snippet` model class. +First, let's add a couple of fields. One of those fields will be used to represent the user who created the code snippet. The other field will be used to store the highlighted HTML representation of the code. + +Add the following two fields to the model. + + owner = models.ForeignKey('auth.User', related_name='snippets') + highlighted = models.TextField() + +We'd also need to make sure that when the model is saved, that we populate the highlighted field, using the `pygments` code higlighting library. + +We'll ned some extra imports: + + from pygments.lexers import get_lexer_by_name + from pygments.formatters import HtmlFormatter + from pygments import highlight + +And now we can add a `.save()` method to our model class: + + def save(self, *args, **kwargs): + """ + Use the `pygments` library to create an highlighted HTML + representation of the code snippet. + """ + lexer = get_lexer_by_name(self.language) + linenos = self.linenos and 'table' or False + options = self.title and {'title': self.title} or {} + formatter = HtmlFormatter(style=self.style, linenos=linenos, + full=True, **options) + self.highlighted = highlight(self.code, lexer, formatter) + super(Snippet, self).save(*args, **kwargs) + +When that's all done we'll need to update our database tables. +Normally we'd create a database migration in order to do that, but for the purposes of this tutorial, let's just delete the database and start again. + + rm tmp.db + python ./manage.py syncdb + +You might also want to create a few different users, to use for testing the API. The quickest way to do this will be with the `createsuperuser` command. + + python ./manage.py createsuperuser + +## Adding endpoints for our User models + +Now that we've got some users to work with, we'd better add representations of those users to our API. Creating a new serializer is easy: + + class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): + snippets = serializers.ManyPrimaryKeyRelatedField() + + class Meta: + model = User + fields = ('pk', 'username', 'snippets') + +Because `'snippets'` is a *reverse* relationship on the User model, it will not be included by default when using the `ModelSerializer` class, so we've needed to add an explicit field for it. + +We'll also add a couple of views. We'd like to just use read-only views for the user representations, so we'll use the `ListAPIView` and `RetrieveAPIView` generic class based views. + + class UserList(generics.ListAPIView): + model = User + serializer_class = UserSerializer + + + class UserInstance(generics.RetrieveAPIView): + model = User + serializer_class = UserSerializer + +Finally we need to add those views into the API, by referencing them from the URL conf. + + url(r'^users/$', views.UserList.as_view()), + url(r'^users/(?P[0-9]+)/$', views.UserInstance.as_view()) + +## Associating Snippets with Users + +Right now, if we created a code snippet, there'd be no way of associating the user that created the snippet, with the snippet instance. The user isn't sent as part of the serialized representation, but is instead a property of the incoming request. + +The way we deal with that is by overriding a `.pre_save()` method on our snippet views, that allows us to handle any information that is implicit in the incoming request or requested URL. + +On **both** the `SnippetList` and `SnippetInstance` view classes, add the following method: + + def pre_save(self, obj): + obj.owner = self.request.user + +## Updating our serializer + +Now that snippets are associated with the user that created them, let's update our SnippetSerializer to reflect that. + +Add the following field to the serializer definition: + + owner = serializers.Field(source='owner.username') + +**Note**: Make sure you also add `'owner',` to the list of fields in the inner `Meta` class. + +This field is doing something quite interesting. The `source` argument controls which attribtue is used to populate a field, and can point at any attribute on the serialized instance. It can also take the dotted notation shown above, in which case it will traverse the given attributes, in a similar way as is used with Django's template language. + +The field we've added is the untyped `Field` class, in contrast to the other typed fields, such as `CharField`, `BooleanField` etc... The untyped `Field` is always read-only, and will be used for serialized representations, but will not be used for updating model instances when they are deserialized. + +## Adding required permissions to views + +Now that code snippets are associated with users we want to make sure that only authenticated users are able to create, update and delete code snippets. + +REST framework includes a number of permission classes that we can use to restrict who can access a given view. In this case the one we're looking for is `IsAuthenticatedOrReadOnly`, which will ensure that authenticated requests get read-write access, and unauthenticated requests get read-only access. + +Add the following property to **both** the `SnippetList` and `SnippetInstance` view classes. + + permission_classes = (permissions.IsAuthenticatedOrReadOnly,) + +**TODO: Now that the permissions are restricted, demonstrate using HTTP basic authentication with curl requests** + +## Adding login to the Browseable API + +If you open a browser and navigate to the browseable API at the moment, you'll find you're no longer able to create new code snippets. In order to do so we'd need to be able to login as a user. + +We can add a login view for use with the browseable API, by editing our URLconf once more. + +Add the following import at the top of the file: + + from django.conf.urls import include + +And, at the end of the file, add a pattern to include the login and logout views for the browseable API. + + urlpatterns += patterns('', + url(r'^api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls', + namespace='rest_framework')) + ) + +The `r'^api-auth/'` part of pattern can actually be whatever URL you want to use. The only restriction is that the included urls must use the `'rest_framework'` namespace. + +Now if you open up the browser again and refresh the page you'll see a 'Login' link in the top right of the page. If you log in as one of the users you created earier, you'll be able to create code snippets again. + +Once you've created a few code snippets, navigate to the '/users/' endpoint, and notice that the representation includes a list of the snippet pks that are associated with each user, in each user's 'snippets' field. + +## Object level permissions + +Really we'd like all code snippets to be visible to anyone, but also make sure that only the user that created a code snippet is able update or delete it. + +To do that we're going to need to create a custom permission. + +In the snippets app, create a new file, `permissions.py` + + from rest_framework import permissions + + + class IsOwnerOrReadOnly(permissions.BasePermission): + """ + Custom permission to only allow owners of an object to edit it. + """ + + def has_permission(self, request, view, obj=None): + # Skip the check unless this is an object-level test + if obj is None: + return True + + # Read permissions are allowed to any request + if request.method in permissions.SAFE_METHODS: + return True + + # Write permissions are only allowed to the owner of the snippet + return obj.owner == request.user + +Now we can add that custom permission to our snippet instance endpoint, by editing the `permission_classes` property on the `SnippetInstance` class: + + permission_classes = (permissions.IsAuthenticatedOrReadOnly, + IsOwnerOrReadOnly,) + +Make sure to also import the `IsOwnerOrReadOnly` class. + + from snippets.permissions import IsOwnerOrReadOnly + +Now, if you open a browser again, you find that the 'DELETE' and 'PUT' actions only appear on a snippet instance endpoint if you're logged in as the same user that created the code snippet. + +## Summary + +We've now got a fairly fine-grained set of permissions on our Web API, and end points for users of the system and for the code snippets that they have created. + +In [part 5][tut-5] of the tutorial we'll look at how we can tie everything together by creating an HTML endpoint for our hightlighted snippets, and improve the cohesion of our API by using hyperlinking for the relationships within the system. + +[tut-5]: 5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-permissions-and-throttling.md b/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-permissions-and-throttling.md deleted file mode 100644 index c8d7cbd3..00000000 --- a/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-permissions-and-throttling.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -# Tutorial 4: Authentication & Permissions - -Nothing to see here. Onwards to [part 5][tut-5]. - -[tut-5]: 5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md b/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md index 8600d5ed..84d02a53 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md @@ -1,11 +1,157 @@ # Tutorial 5 - Relationships & Hyperlinked APIs -**TODO** +At the moment relationships within our API are represented by using primary keys. In this part of the tutorial we'll improve the cohesion and discoverability of our API, by instead using hyperlinking for relationships. -* Create BlogPost model -* Demonstrate nested relationships -* Demonstrate and describe hyperlinked relationships +## Creating an endpoint for the root of our API - + from rest_framework import renderers + from rest_framework.decorators import api_view + from rest_framework.response import Response + from rest_framework.reverse import reverse + + + @api_view(('GET',)) + def api_root(request, format=None): + return Response({ + 'users': reverse('user-list', request=request), + 'snippets': reverse('snippet-list', request=request) + }) + +Notice that we're using REST framework's `reverse` function in order to return fully-qualified URLs. + +## Creating an endpoint for the highlighted snippets + +The other obvious thing that's still missing from our pastebin API is the code highlighting endpoints. + +Unlike all our other API endpoints, we don't want to use JSON, but instead just present an HTML representation. There are two style of HTML renderer provided by REST framework, one for dealing with HTML rendered using templates, the other for dealing with pre-rendered HTML. The second renderer is the one we'd like to use for this endpoint. + +The other thing we need to consider when creating the code highlight view is that there's no existing concreate generic view that we can use. We're not returning an object instance, but instead a property of an object instance. + +Instead of using a concrete generic view, we'll use the base class for representing instances, and create our own `.get()` method. + + class SnippetHighlight(generics.SingleObjectAPIView): + model = Snippet + renderer_classes = (renderers.StaticHTMLRenderer,) + + def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs): + snippet = self.get_object() + return Response(snippet.highlighted) + +As usual we need to add the new views that we've created in to our URLconf. +We'll add a url pattern for our new API root: + + url(r'^$', 'api_root'), + +And then add a url pattern for the snippet highlights: + + url(r'^snippets/(?P[0-9]+)/highlight/$', views.SnippetHighlight.as_view()), + +## Hyperlinking our API + +Dealing with relationships between entities is one of the more challenging aspects of Web API design. There are a number of different ways that we might choose to represent a relationship: + +* Using primary keys. +* Using hyperlinking between entities. +* Using a unique identifying slug field on the related entity. +* Using the default string representation of the related entity. +* Nesting the related entity inside the parent representation. +* Some other custom representation. + +REST framework supports all of these styles, and can apply them across forward or reverse relationships, or apply them across custom managers such as generic foreign keys. + +In this case we'd like to use a hyperlinked style between entities. In order to do so, we'll modify our serializers to extend `HyperlinkedModelSerializer` instead of the existing `ModelSerializer`. + +The `HyperlinkedModelSerializer` has the following differences from `ModelSerializer`: + +* It does not include the `pk` field by default. +* It includes a `url` field, using `HyperlinkedIdentityField`. +* Relationships use `HyperlinkedRelatedField` and `ManyHyperlinkedRelatedField`, + instead of `PrimaryKeyRelatedField` and `ManyPrimaryKeyRelatedField`. + +We can easily re-write our existing serializers to use hyperlinking. + + class SnippetSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer): + owner = serializers.Field(source='owner.username') + highlight = serializers.HyperlinkedIdentityField(view_name='snippet-highlight') + + class Meta: + model = models.Snippet + fields = ('url', 'highlight', 'owner', + 'title', 'code', 'linenos', 'language', 'style') + + + class UserSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer): + snippets = serializers.ManyHyperlinkedRelatedField(view_name='snippet-detail') + + class Meta: + model = User + fields = ('url', 'username', 'snippets') + +Notice that we've also added a new `'highlight'` field. This field is of the same type as the `url` field, except that it points to the `'snippet-highlight'` url pattern, instead of the `'snippet-detail'` url pattern. + +## Making sure our URL patterns are named + +If we're going to have a hyperlinked API, we need to make sure we name our URL patterns. Let's take a look at which URL patterns we need to name. + +* The root of our API refers to `'user-list'` and `'snippet-list'`. +* Our snippet serializer includes a field that refers to `'snippet-highlight'`. +* Our user serializer includes a field that refers to `'snippet-detail'`. +* Our snippet and user serializers include `'url'` fields that by default will refer to `'{model_name}-detail'`, which in this case will be `'snippet-detail'` and `'user-detail'`. + +After adding all those names into our URLconf, our final `'urls.py'` file should look something like this: + + # API endpoints + urlpatterns = format_suffix_patterns(patterns('snippets.views', + url(r'^$', 'api_root'), + url(r'^snippets/$', + views.SnippetList.as_view(), + name='snippet-list'), + url(r'^snippets/(?P[0-9]+)/$', + views.SnippetInstance.as_view(), + name='snippet-detail'), + url(r'^snippets/(?P[0-9]+)/highlight/$' + views.SnippetHighlight.as_view(), + name='snippet-highlight'), + url(r'^users/$', + views.UserList.as_view(), + name='user-list'), + url(r'^users/(?P[0-9]+)/$', + views.UserInstance.as_view(), + name='user-detail') + )) + + # Login and logout views for the browsable API + urlpatterns += patterns('', + url(r'^api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls', + namespace='rest_framework')) + ) + +## Reviewing our work + +If we open a browser and navigate to the browseable API, you'll find that you can now work your way around the API simply by following links. + +You'll also be able to see the 'highlight' links on the snippet instances, that will take you to the hightlighted code HTML representations. + +We've now got a complete pastebin Web API, which is fully web browseable, and comes complete with authentication, per-object permissions, and multiple renderer formats. + +We've walked through each step of the design process, and seen how if we need to customize anything we can gradually work our way down to simply using regular Django views. + +You can review the final [tutorial code][repo] on GitHub, or try out a live example in [the sandbox][sandbox]. + +## Onwards and upwards. + +We've reached the end of our tutorial. If you want to get more involved in the REST framework project, here's a few places you can start: + +* Contribute on [GitHub][github] by reviewing and subitting issues, and making pull requests. +* Join the [REST framework discussion group][group], and help build the community. +* Follow the author [on Twitter][twitter] and say hi. + +**Now go build some awesome things.** + +[repo]: https://github.com/tomchristie/rest-framework-tutorial +[sandbox]: http://sultry-coast-6726.herokuapp.com/ +[github]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework +[group]: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/django-rest-framework +[twitter]: https://twitter.com/_tomchristie \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3 From db635fa6327d8d3ac3b06886c5f459b5c5a5cd04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Christie Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:37:27 +0000 Subject: Minor fixes --- docs/index.md | 6 ++---- docs/template.html | 3 +-- docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md | 6 +++--- docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md | 8 ++++---- docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md | 2 ++ 5 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md index f66ba7f4..bd0c007d 100644 --- a/docs/index.md +++ b/docs/index.md @@ -67,9 +67,8 @@ The tutorial will walk you through the building blocks that make up REST framewo * [1 - Serialization][tut-1] * [2 - Requests & Responses][tut-2] * [3 - Class based views][tut-3] -* [4 - Authentication, permissions & throttling][tut-4] +* [4 - Authentication & permissions][tut-4] * [5 - Relationships & hyperlinked APIs][tut-5] - ## API Guide @@ -161,9 +160,8 @@ OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. [tut-1]: tutorial/1-serialization.md [tut-2]: tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md [tut-3]: tutorial/3-class-based-views.md -[tut-4]: tutorial/4-authentication-permissions-and-throttling.md +[tut-4]: tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md [tut-5]: tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md -[tut-6]: tutorial/6-resource-orientated-projects.md [request]: api-guide/requests.md [response]: api-guide/responses.md diff --git a/docs/template.html b/docs/template.html index 56c5d832..557b45b3 100644 --- a/docs/template.html +++ b/docs/template.html @@ -57,9 +57,8 @@
  • 1 - Serialization
  • 2 - Requests and responses
  • 3 - Class based views
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  • 4 - Authentication, permissions and throttling
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  • 4 - Authentication and permissions
  • 5 - Relationships and hyperlinked APIs
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  • diff --git a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md index fc052202..c1ab49d1 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md @@ -278,13 +278,13 @@ We'll also need a view which corresponds to an individual snippet, and can be us snippet.delete() return HttpResponse(status=204) -Finally we need to wire these views up. Create the `snippet/urls.py` file: +Finally we need to wire these views up. Create the `snippets/urls.py` file: from django.conf.urls import patterns, url urlpatterns = patterns('snippets.views', - url(r'^snippet/$', 'snippet_list'), - url(r'^snippet/(?P[0-9]+)/$', 'snippet_detail') + url(r'^snippets/$', 'snippet_list'), + url(r'^snippets/(?P[0-9]+)/$', 'snippet_detail') ) It's worth noting that there's a couple of edge cases we're not dealing with properly at the moment. If we send malformed `json`, or if a request is made with a method that the view doesn't handle, then we'll end up with a 500 "server error" response. Still, this'll do for now. diff --git a/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md b/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md index 76803d24..938739fa 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md @@ -114,8 +114,8 @@ Now update the `urls.py` file slightly, to append a set of `format_suffix_patter from rest_framework.urlpatterns import format_suffix_patterns urlpatterns = patterns('snippet.views', - url(r'^$', 'snippet_list'), - url(r'^(?P[0-9]+)$', 'snippet_detail') + url(r'^snippets/$', 'snippet_list'), + url(r'^snippets/(?P[0-9]+)$', 'snippet_detail') ) urlpatterns = format_suffix_patterns(urlpatterns) @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ Go ahead and test the API from the command line, as we did in [tutorial part 1][ **TODO: Describe using accept headers, content-type headers, and format suffixed URLs** -Now go and open the API in a web browser, by visiting [http://127.0.0.1:8000/][devserver]." +Now go and open the API in a web browser, by visiting [http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/][devserver]." **Note: Right now the Browseable API only works with the CBV's. Need to fix that.** @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ See the [browsable api][browseable-api] topic for more information about the bro In [tutorial part 3][tut-3], we'll start using class based views, and see how generic views reduce the amount of code we need to write. [json-url]: http://example.com/api/items/4.json -[devserver]: http://127.0.0.1:8000/ +[devserver]: http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/ [browseable-api]: ../topics/browsable-api.md [tut-1]: 1-serialization.md [tut-3]: 3-class-based-views.md diff --git a/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md b/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md index 79436ad4..336d5891 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md @@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ This field is doing something quite interesting. The `source` argument controls The field we've added is the untyped `Field` class, in contrast to the other typed fields, such as `CharField`, `BooleanField` etc... The untyped `Field` is always read-only, and will be used for serialized representations, but will not be used for updating model instances when they are deserialized. +**TODO: Explain the SessionAuthentication and BasicAuthentication classes, and demonstrate using HTTP basic authentication with curl requests** + ## Adding required permissions to views Now that code snippets are associated with users we want to make sure that only authenticated users are able to create, update and delete code snippets. -- cgit v1.2.3 From 3906ff0df5d1972a7226a4fdd0eebce9a026befa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Christie Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:18:02 +0000 Subject: Improve fields docs --- docs/api-guide/fields.md | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/api-guide/fields.md b/docs/api-guide/fields.md index 7e117df7..bf80945d 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/fields.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/fields.md @@ -12,6 +12,51 @@ Serializer fields handle converting between primative values and internal dataty **Note:** The serializer fields are declared in fields.py, but by convention you should import them using `from rest_framework import serializers` and refer to fields as `serializers.`. +--- + +## Core arguments + +Each serializer field class constructor takes at least these arguments. Some Field classes take additional, field-specific arguments, but the following should always be accepted: + +### `source` + +The name of the attribute that will be used to populate the field. May be a method that only takes a `self` argument, such as `Field(source='get_absolute_url')`, or may use dotted notation to traverse attributes, such as `Field(source='user.email')`. + +The value `source='*'` has a special meaning, and is used to indicate that the entire object should be passed through to the field. This can be useful for creating nested representations. (See the implementation of the `PaginationSerializer` class for an example.) + +Defaults to the name of the field. + +### `readonly` + +Set this to `True` to ensure that the field is used when serializing a representation, but is not used when updating an instance dureing deserialization. + +Defaults to `False` + +### `required` + +Normally an error will be raised if a field is not supplied during deserialization. +Set to false if this field is not required to be present during deserialization. + +Defaults to `True`. + +### `default` + +If set, this gives the default value that will be used for the field if none is supplied. If not set the default behaviour is to not populate the attribute at all. + +### `validators` + +A list of Django validators that should be used to validate deserialized values. + +### `error_messages` + +A dictionary of error codes to error messages. + +### `widget` + +Used only if rendering the field to HTML. +This argument sets the widget that should be used to render the field. + + --- # Generic Fields @@ -192,7 +237,7 @@ Then an example output format for a Bookmark instance would be: ## PrimaryKeyRelatedField -As with `RelatedField` field can be applied to any "to-one" relationship, such as a `ForeignKey` field. +This field can be applied to any "to-one" relationship, such as a `ForeignKey` field. `PrimaryKeyRelatedField` will represent the target of the field using it's primary key. @@ -200,16 +245,34 @@ Be default, `PrimaryKeyRelatedField` is read-write, although you can change this ## ManyPrimaryKeyRelatedField -As with `RelatedField` field can be applied to any "to-many" relationship, such as a `ManyToManyField` field, or a reverse `ForeignKey` relationship. +This field can be applied to any "to-many" relationship, such as a `ManyToManyField` field, or a reverse `ForeignKey` relationship. -`PrimaryKeyRelatedField` will represent the target of the field using their primary key. +`PrimaryKeyRelatedField` will represent the targets of the field using their primary key. Be default, `ManyPrimaryKeyRelatedField` is read-write, although you can change this behaviour using the `readonly` flag. ## HyperlinkedRelatedField +This field can be applied to any "to-one" relationship, such as a `ForeignKey` field. + +`HyperlinkedRelatedField` will represent the target of the field using a hyperlink. You must include a named URL pattern in your URL conf, with a name like `'{model-name}-detail'` that corresponds to the target of the hyperlink. + +Be default, `HyperlinkedRelatedField` is read-write, although you can change this behaviour using the `readonly` flag. + ## ManyHyperlinkedRelatedField +This field can be applied to any "to-many" relationship, such as a `ManyToManyField` field, or a reverse `ForeignKey` relationship. + +`ManyHyperlinkedRelatedField` will represent the targets of the field using hyperlinks. You must include a named URL pattern in your URL conf, with a name like `'{model-name}-detail'` that corresponds to the target of the hyperlink. + +Be default, `ManyHyperlinkedRelatedField` is read-write, although you can change this behaviour using the `readonly` flag. + ## HyperLinkedIdentityField +This field can be applied as an identity relationship, such as the `'url'` field on a HyperlinkedModelSerializer. + +You must include a named URL pattern in your URL conf, with a name like `'{model-name}-detail'` that corresponds to the model. + +This field is always read-only. + [cite]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ -- cgit v1.2.3 From 6e4ab09aae8295e4ef722d59894bc2934435ae46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Christie Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:21:45 +0000 Subject: readonly -> read_only --- docs/api-guide/fields.md | 10 +++++----- docs/api-guide/serializers.md | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/api-guide/fields.md b/docs/api-guide/fields.md index bf80945d..8c3df067 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/fields.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/fields.md @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ The value `source='*'` has a special meaning, and is used to indicate that the e Defaults to the name of the field. -### `readonly` +### `read_only` Set this to `True` to ensure that the field is used when serializing a representation, but is not used when updating an instance dureing deserialization. @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ This field can be applied to any "to-one" relationship, such as a `ForeignKey` f `PrimaryKeyRelatedField` will represent the target of the field using it's primary key. -Be default, `PrimaryKeyRelatedField` is read-write, although you can change this behaviour using the `readonly` flag. +Be default, `PrimaryKeyRelatedField` is read-write, although you can change this behaviour using the `read_only` flag. ## ManyPrimaryKeyRelatedField @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ This field can be applied to any "to-many" relationship, such as a `ManyToManyFi `PrimaryKeyRelatedField` will represent the targets of the field using their primary key. -Be default, `ManyPrimaryKeyRelatedField` is read-write, although you can change this behaviour using the `readonly` flag. +Be default, `ManyPrimaryKeyRelatedField` is read-write, although you can change this behaviour using the `read_only` flag. ## HyperlinkedRelatedField @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ This field can be applied to any "to-one" relationship, such as a `ForeignKey` f `HyperlinkedRelatedField` will represent the target of the field using a hyperlink. You must include a named URL pattern in your URL conf, with a name like `'{model-name}-detail'` that corresponds to the target of the hyperlink. -Be default, `HyperlinkedRelatedField` is read-write, although you can change this behaviour using the `readonly` flag. +Be default, `HyperlinkedRelatedField` is read-write, although you can change this behaviour using the `read_only` flag. ## ManyHyperlinkedRelatedField @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ This field can be applied to any "to-many" relationship, such as a `ManyToManyFi `ManyHyperlinkedRelatedField` will represent the targets of the field using hyperlinks. You must include a named URL pattern in your URL conf, with a name like `'{model-name}-detail'` that corresponds to the target of the hyperlink. -Be default, `ManyHyperlinkedRelatedField` is read-write, although you can change this behaviour using the `readonly` flag. +Be default, `ManyHyperlinkedRelatedField` is read-write, although you can change this behaviour using the `read_only` flag. ## HyperLinkedIdentityField diff --git a/docs/api-guide/serializers.md b/docs/api-guide/serializers.md index 057827d3..2338b879 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/serializers.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/serializers.md @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ The `ModelSerializer` class lets you automatically create a Serializer class wit You can add extra fields to a `ModelSerializer` or override the default fields by declaring fields on the class, just as you would for a `Serializer` class. class AccountSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): - url = CharField(source='get_absolute_url', readonly=True) + url = CharField(source='get_absolute_url', read_only=True) group = NaturalKeyField() class Meta: @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ When serializing objects using a nested representation any occurances of recursi model = Account def get_pk_field(self, model_field): - return serializers.Field(readonly=True) + return serializers.Field(read_only=True) def get_nested_field(self, model_field): return serializers.ModelSerializer() -- cgit v1.2.3 From 351382fe35f966c989b27add5bb04d0d983a99ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Christie Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:43:43 +0000 Subject: nested -> depth --- docs/api-guide/serializers.md | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/api-guide/serializers.md b/docs/api-guide/serializers.md index 2338b879..902179ba 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/serializers.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/serializers.md @@ -107,21 +107,21 @@ where some of the attributes of an object might not be simple datatypes such as The `Serializer` class is itself a type of `Field`, and can be used to represent relationships where one object type is nested inside another. class UserSerializer(serializers.Serializer): - email = serializers.EmailField() - username = serializers.CharField() - - def restore_object(self, attrs, instance=None): - return User(**attrs) - + email = serializers.Field() + username = serializers.Field() class CommentSerializer(serializers.Serializer): user = UserSerializer() - title = serializers.CharField() - content = serializers.CharField(max_length=200) - created = serializers.DateTimeField() - - def restore_object(self, attrs, instance=None): - return Comment(**attrs) + title = serializers.Field() + content = serializers.Field() + created = serializers.Field() + +--- + +**Note**: Nested serializers are only suitable for read-only representations, as there are cases where they would have ambiguous or non-obvious behavior if used when updating instances. For read-write representations you should always use a flat representation, by using one of the `RelatedField` subclasses. + +--- + ## Creating custom fields @@ -225,40 +225,54 @@ For example: ## Specifiying nested serialization -The default `ModelSerializer` uses primary keys for relationships, but you can also easily generate nested representations using the `nested` option: +The default `ModelSerializer` uses primary keys for relationships, but you can also easily generate nested representations using the `depth` option: class AccountSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): class Meta: model = Account exclude = ('id',) - nested = True + depth = 1 -The `nested` option may be set to either `True`, `False`, or an integer value. If given an integer value it indicates the depth of relationships that should be traversed before reverting to a flat representation. +The `depth` option should be set to an integer value that indicates the depth of relationships that should be traversed before reverting to a flat representation. -When serializing objects using a nested representation any occurances of recursion will be recognised, and will fall back to using a flat representation. +## Customising the default fields -## Customising the default fields used by a ModelSerializer +You can create customized subclasses of `ModelSerializer` that use a different set of default fields for the representation, by overriding various `get__field` methods. +Each of these methods may either return a field or serializer instance, or `None`. +### get_pk_field - class AccountSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): - class Meta: - model = Account +**Signature**: `.get_pk_field(self, model_field)` - def get_pk_field(self, model_field): - return serializers.Field(read_only=True) +Returns the field instance that should be used to represent the pk field. + +### get_nested_field + +**Signature**: `.get_nested_field(self, model_field)` + +Returns the field instance that should be used to represent a related field when `depth` is specified as being non-zero. + +### get_related_field - def get_nested_field(self, model_field): - return serializers.ModelSerializer() +**Signature**: `.get_related_field(self, model_field, to_many=False)` - def get_related_field(self, model_field, to_many=False): - queryset = model_field.rel.to._default_manager - if to_many: - return serializers.ManyRelatedField(queryset=queryset) - return serializers.RelatedField(queryset=queryset) +Returns the field instance that should be used to represent a related field when `depth` is not specified, or when nested representations are being used and the depth reaches zero. + +### get_field + +**Signature**: `.get_field(self, model_field)` + +Returns the field instance that should be used for non-relational, non-pk fields. + +### Example: + +The following custom model serializer could be used as a base class for model serializers that should always exclude the pk by default. + + class NoPKModelSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): + def get_pk_field(self, model_field): + return None - def get_field(self, model_field): - return serializers.ModelField(model_field=model_field) [cite]: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-users/sVFaOfQi4wY/discussion -- cgit v1.2.3 From f2d63467764fd3784e9eb207bdb5b5387e7cd516 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Christie Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:50:37 +0000 Subject: Add initial explanatory paragraph --- docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md b/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md index 336d5891..a0d7c5a6 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md @@ -1,7 +1,11 @@ # Tutorial 4: Authentication & Permissions -Currently our API doesn't have any restrictions on who can +Currently our API doesn't have any restrictions on who can edit or delete code snippets. We'd like to have some more advanced behavior in order to make sure that: +* Code snippets are always associated with a creator. +* Only authenticated users may create snippets. +* Only the creator of a snippet may update or delete it. +* Unauthenticated requests should have full read-only access. ## Adding information to our model -- cgit v1.2.3 From bdd939f1f3ac726bfe293e956995da57eced4640 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Christie Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:50:51 +0000 Subject: Remove unfinished sections from the index --- docs/index.md | 2 -- docs/template.html | 2 -- 2 files changed, 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md index 6115d17d..b6eebc5f 100644 --- a/docs/index.md +++ b/docs/index.md @@ -97,11 +97,9 @@ The API guide is your complete reference manual to all the functionality provide General guides to using REST framework. -* [CSRF][csrf] * [Browser enhancements][browser-enhancements] * [The Browsable API][browsableapi] * [REST, Hypermedia & HATEOAS][rest-hypermedia-hateoas] -* [Contributing to REST framework][contributing] * [2.0 Announcement][rest-framework-2-announcement] * [Release Notes][release-notes] * [Credits][credits] diff --git a/docs/template.html b/docs/template.html index f0f6afe7..fcceede5 100644 --- a/docs/template.html +++ b/docs/template.html @@ -87,11 +87,9 @@
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