Django Start-API

Quick REST API creation.

Quick ready to use REST API based on Django and DRF, create your config file, launch 'startapi' and you will get:

• Standard Django project created
• All app created

For each app:

• Models already created and migrated
• For each model:
  • full working api (GET, POST, PUT PATCH, DELETE) (refer to: https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/routers/#simplerouter)
  • ModelViewSet already created
  • ModelSerializer already created
  • Registered urls with DefaultRouter
  • Registered model in admin

Installation

pip install django_startapi

Quickstart

1. Create your config.yaml
2. Run 'startapi'

Usage

This software is intented to be used to create an initial full working REST API, based on Django and Django Rest Framework. Design apps with models inside a config file and run django_startapi.

1. Create a config file named 'config.yaml'
2. run startapi
3. optional: python manage.py createsuperuser
4. python manage.py runserver and go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/

Config file

• Add a project name used as for django-admin stratproject
• Define your apps with models, models fields are Django fields

Note: Write related model name as string or put related models before relation to avoid "NameError: name 'YourModel' is not defined"

Config file structure:

project: <your_project_name>
apps:
    <app_name>:
        <ModelName>:
            field: SomeDjangoField()
            field: SomeDjangoField()
            ...
        <ModelName>:
            field: SomeDjangoField()
            field: SomeDjangoField()
            ...
    <app_name>:
        <ModelName>:
            field: SomeDjangoField()
            field: SomeDjangoField()
            ...
        <ModelName>:
            field: SomeDjangoField()
            field: SomeDjangoField()
            ...
     ...       

Example of config file

project: audiolibrary
apps:
    band:
        Musician:
            name: CharField(max_length=40)
            surname: CharField(max_length=40)
            born_date: DateField(null=True)
        Band:
            name: CharField(max_length=100)
            author: ManyToManyField('Musician')
    album:
        Genre:
            name: CharField(max_length=100)
        Label:
            name: CharField(max_length=100)
        Album:
            name: CharField(max_length=120)
            band: ForeignKey('band.Band',  on_delete=models.DO_NOTHING)
            label: ForeignKey('Label',  on_delete=models.DO_NOTHING)
            date: DateField(null=True)