[Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2013 : Authenticated REST-API in Postorius/Django
Rahul Gaur
rahul.nbg at gmail.com
Mon Apr 8 19:30:51 CEST 2013
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 :)
>
>
> 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
>
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
> RESTful Web Services:
> http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596529260.do
> Although the book's been out for many years now, I still think it holds up
> well, and will give you a great understanding of the basic concepts and
design
> principles behind REST. It also gives lots of great tips for organizing
your
> resources, etc.
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
> should discuss on this mailing list.
> Cheers,
> -Barry
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 !
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