Django Restless is a lightweight RESTful API framework for Django.

As there are already plenty of REST API frameworks for Django (Tastypie, Django REST Framework, Piston), why another one?

Restless helps you write APIs that loosely follow the RESTful paradigm, without forcing you to do so. While that's possible to do in other frameworks as well, it can be quite cumbersome. It's more like a set of useful tools than a set thing you must comply with.

Restless provides only JSON support. If you need to support XML or other formats, you probably want to take a look at some of the other frameworks out there.

One of the main points of Restless is that it's lightweight, and reuses as much of functionality in Django as possible. For example, JSON serialization is using Django serializers, and input parsing and validation is done using standard Django forms. This means you don't have to learn a whole new API to use Restless.

Here's a simple view implementing an API endpoint greeting the caller:

from restless.views import Endpoint

class HelloWorld(Endpoint):
    def get(self, request):
        name = request.params.get('name', 'World')
        return {'message': 'Hello, %s!' % name}

Django Restless is available from cheeseshop, so you can install it via pip:

pip install DjangoRestless

For the latest and the greatest, you can also get it directly from git master:

pip install -e git+ssh://github.com/senko/DjangoRestless/tree/master

Documentation is graciously hosted by ReadTheDocs: http://django-restless.rtfd.org/

Copyright (C) 2012. by Senko Rašić and Django Restless contributors.

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