Tools

Here are some tools that might help in interacting with the API that Tastypie provides:

Browser

JSONView

• Firefox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/jsonview/
• Chrome - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chklaanhfefbnpoihckbnefhakgolnmc

A plugin (actually two different ones that closely mirror each other) that nicely reformats JSON data in the browser.

Extensions

Tastypie-msgpack

https://github.com/stephenmcd/tastypie-msgpack

Adds MsgPack support to Tastypie’s serializer.

Python

Slumber

http://slumber.in/

Slumber is a small Python library that makes it easy to access & work with APIs. It works for many others, but works especially well with Tastypie.

Hammock

https://github.com/kadirpekel/hammock

Hammock is a fun module lets you deal with rest APIs by converting them into dead simple programmatic APIs. It uses popular requests module in backyard to provide full-fledged rest experience.

Here is what it looks like:

>>> import hammock
>>> api = hammock.Hammock('http://localhost:8000')
>>> api.users('foo').posts('bar').comments.GET()
<Response [200]>

drest

http://drest.rtfd.org/

drest is another small Python library. It focuses on extensibility & can also work with many different API, with an emphasis on Tastypie.

json.tool

Included with Python, this tool makes reformatting JSON easy. For example:

$ curl http://localhost:8000/api/v1/note/ | python -m json.tool

Will return nicely reformatted data like:

{
    "meta": {
        "total_count": 1
    },
    "objects": [
        {
            "content": "Hello world!",
            "user": "/api/v1/user/1/"
        }
    ]
}

Javascript

backbone-tastypie

https://github.com/PaulUithol/backbone-tastypie

A small layer that makes Backbone & Tastypie plan nicely together.

backbone-relational

https://github.com/PaulUithol/Backbone-relational/

Allows Backbone to work with relational data, like the kind of data Tastypie provides.