This is the final progress report for my project, Authenticated REST API for Postorius/Django.
The code is available at https://bitbucket.org/mgill25/mm-rest
I'll go over the major points of the work done so far:
The public-facing REST Interface is mostly done. Most business use cases, things like creating/deleting lists, subscriptions etc are working via REST.
The REST Interface currently works with Basic Auth, but other authentication schemes are easily pluggable via the Django REST framework.
Postorius has been modified in order to use the MM-REST models instead of directly interacting with Mailman Core.
Hence, in the case of no connection available to Core, MM-REST, and consequently Postorius, continue to work on their own, saving data in their own level. Which brings me to...
The Caching Interface b/w Mailman Core and MM-REST, which is yet to be completely finished. I have a (somewhat) generic interface, but haven't managed to make it work for all the models, primarily Memberships.
Workaround in mm-rest or modifications in Core for allowing backing up of certain Models, which is currently limited by the Core REST API. For example: Registering new Email addresses for a User.
And there's a small todo file in the project containing some things to be done yet.
The project is not 100% finished yet, and after the GSoC is formally over, I shall continue working on it.