Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2013 : Authenticated REST-API in Postorius/Django

Welcome to our community,
I'm happy to see that you are interested in the REST interfaces. In addition to TastyPie, I suggest that you also look at django-rest-framework. Please compare the two and let us know what you see as the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Richard
On Mar 28, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Rahul Gaur <rahul.nbg@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi ,
Sorry for the late reply , I have been out of the city and I came back to the college yesterday only .
Welcome to our community,
Glad to be a part of the community , I hope to contribute towards the development of Gnu Mailman :)
So , last night I tried my hand on django-rest-framework [0] and TastyPie [1] as well.
What I could figure out with my two quick and dirty hands on applications of both the frameworks , the django-rest-framework is a bit more lengthy ( but those few extra lines are for the best) when stacked up against Tastypie.
I wrote this quick django app and then I tried to write API's for that app in both the framework.Both the frameworks have there own advantages lets talk about that.
Lets talk about the django-rest-framework, this was the first framework I tried and so I started from the scratch.So for my toy app , I referred the tutorial(I felt it's better documented than TastyPie ) and started writing the code.By the time I was done ,I could do lot of things with it.Biggest advantage it has over the TastyPie is this one :
*$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/formpost/ -H 'Accept:text/html'
*
The Django-rest-frameworks API's returns web browsable representation of the data by default :) I find this to be a lot more useful in the scenario where I am developing a new app from the scratch. Plus the default frontend is done with bootstrap , which makes it easier to customize as per the requirements as well.
Now , I would use TastyPie for an existing django project/app which has a web interface and I just need API's so I can provide third party support for my Project. TastyPie is kind of more easy to get started with as compared to Django-rest-framework.
I highly recommend Leonard Richardson's and Sam Ruby's O'Reilly book on
Thanks for recommending this book, I have started going through it .
Of course, it makes the most sense for the authenticated REST API to as
closely mimic the core admin API as possible.
Where there are conflicts, we
So , the confusion I am facing here is that the Postorius is already mature and stable app and while playing with the two frameworks for API's what I figured out is that if I opt for django-rest-framework , I would need to write new Views ? But if I go for TastyPie , I won't have to touch the existing Views and write authenticated API's.
Hence to implement authenticated API's , which one would be better ?
[0] - https://github.com/aregee/restful [1] - https://github.com/aregee/restpie
Cheers !
*Rahul Gaur* *irc : iamaregee2* *web: *http://www.rahulgaur.info* * *blogs : *aregee.wordpress.com , <http://sanencynicalwriter.wordpress.com/> http://sanencynicalwriter.wordpress.com/ *fb:* http://facebook.com/iamaregee *github: *https://github.com/aregee

Hi ,
Sorry for the late reply , I have been out of the city and I came back to the college yesterday only .
Welcome to our community,
Glad to be a part of the community , I hope to contribute towards the development of Gnu Mailman :)
So , last night I tried my hand on django-rest-framework [0] and TastyPie [1] as well.
What I could figure out with my two quick and dirty hands on applications of both the frameworks , the django-rest-framework is a bit more lengthy ( but those few extra lines are for the best) when stacked up against Tastypie.
I wrote this quick django app and then I tried to write API's for that app in both the framework.Both the frameworks have there own advantages lets talk about that.
Lets talk about the django-rest-framework, this was the first framework I tried and so I started from the scratch.So for my toy app , I referred the tutorial(I felt it's better documented than TastyPie ) and started writing the code.By the time I was done ,I could do lot of things with it.Biggest advantage it has over the TastyPie is this one :
*$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/formpost/ -H 'Accept:text/html'
*
The Django-rest-frameworks API's returns web browsable representation of the data by default :) I find this to be a lot more useful in the scenario where I am developing a new app from the scratch. Plus the default frontend is done with bootstrap , which makes it easier to customize as per the requirements as well.
Now , I would use TastyPie for an existing django project/app which has a web interface and I just need API's so I can provide third party support for my Project. TastyPie is kind of more easy to get started with as compared to Django-rest-framework.
I highly recommend Leonard Richardson's and Sam Ruby's O'Reilly book on
Thanks for recommending this book, I have started going through it .
Of course, it makes the most sense for the authenticated REST API to as
closely mimic the core admin API as possible.
Where there are conflicts, we
So , the confusion I am facing here is that the Postorius is already mature and stable app and while playing with the two frameworks for API's what I figured out is that if I opt for django-rest-framework , I would need to write new Views ? But if I go for TastyPie , I won't have to touch the existing Views and write authenticated API's.
Hence to implement authenticated API's , which one would be better ?
[0] - https://github.com/aregee/restful [1] - https://github.com/aregee/restpie
Cheers !
*Rahul Gaur* *irc : iamaregee2* *web: *http://www.rahulgaur.info* * *blogs : *aregee.wordpress.com , <http://sanencynicalwriter.wordpress.com/> http://sanencynicalwriter.wordpress.com/ *fb:* http://facebook.com/iamaregee *github: *https://github.com/aregee
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Rahul Gaur
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Richard Wackerbarth