.. _ref-tools:

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


Browser
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JSONView
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* 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.


Python
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Slumber
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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.


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
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backbone-tastypie
-----------------

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

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


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

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