Django REST Framework

2022年3月15日
技術情報

Today I would like to share a brief explanation about Django REST framework. Let’s take a look.

Django REST framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs. Its main benefit is that it makes serialization much easier. Django REST framework is based on Django’s class-based views. It adopts implementations such as class-based views, forms, model validator, QuerySet, etc.

Django REST Framework includes built-in API browser for testing out newly developed API. Web API developed with Django REST Framework is web browsable, supports a wide range of media types, authentication and permission policies out of the box. API’s display data can use standard function based views, or granular with powerful class based views for more complex functionality.

Good Features of Django REST framework

Powerful Serialization that supports both ORM and non-ORM data sources.
Web browsable API is very useful for developers.
Authentication policies including OAuth1a and OAuth2 out of the box.
Easy to customize validators, parsers and authenticators.
Generic classes for CRUD operations.
Clean and simple views for Resources by using Django’s new class based views.
HTTP response handling, content type negotiation using HTTP Accept headers.
Pagination simplifies the process of returning paginated data in a way that can then be rendered to arbitrary media types.
Publishing of metadata along with querysets.

This is a brief introduction about Django REST Framework.

Hope you enjoy that.

By Asahi