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.