A mini-framework for Django for creating RESTful APIs.
Piston is a relatively small Django application that lets you create application programming interfaces (API) for your sites.
It has several unique features:
- Ties into Django's internal mechanisms.
- Supports OAuth out of the box (as well as Basic/Digest or custom auth.)
- Doesn't require tying to models, allowing arbitrary resources.
- Speaks JSON, YAML, Python Pickle & XML (and HATEOAS.)
- Ships with a convenient reusable library in Python
- Respects and encourages proper use of HTTP (status codes, ...)
- Has built in (optional) form validation (via Django), throttling, etc.
- Supports streaming, with a small memory footprint.
- Stays out of your way.
NB: OAuth ships with piston for now, but you are not required to use it. It simply provides some boilerplate in case you want to use it later (consumer/token models, urls, etc.)
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