REST framework requires the following:

• Python (2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7)
• Django (1.11, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2)

We highly recommend and only officially support the latest patch release of each Python and Django series.

The following packages are optional:

• (1.32.0+) - Schema generation support.
• (2.1.0+) - Markdown support for the browsable API.
• (1.0.1+) - Filtering support.
• - Improved HTML display for filtering.
• (1.1.1+) - Object level permissions support.

Install using pip, including any optional packages you want...

pip install djangorestframeworkpip install markdown       # Markdown support for the browsable API.pip install django-filter  # Filtering support

...or clone the project from github.

git clone https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework

Add 'rest_framework' to your INSTALLED_APPS setting.

INSTALLED_APPS = (    ...    'rest_framework',)

If you're intending to use the browsable API you'll probably also want to add REST framework's login and logout views. Add the following to your root urls.py file.

urlpatterns = [    ...    url(r'^api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls'))]

Note that the URL path can be whatever you want.

Let's take a look at a quick example of using REST framework to build a simple model-backed API.

We'll create a read-write API for accessing information on the users of our project.

Any global settings for a REST framework API are kept in a single configuration dictionary named REST_FRAMEWORK. Start off by adding the following to your settings.py module:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {    # Use Django's standard `django.contrib.auth` permissions,    # or allow read-only access for unauthenticated users.    'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': [        'rest_framework.permissions.DjangoModelPermissionsOrAnonReadOnly'    ]}

Don't forget to make sure you've also added rest_framework to your INSTALLED_APPS.

We're ready to create our API now. Here's our project's root urls.py module:

from django.conf.urls import url, includefrom django.contrib.auth.models import Userfrom rest_framework import routers, serializers, viewsets# Serializers define the API representation.class UserSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):    class Meta:        model = User        fields = ('url', 'username', 'email', 'is_staff')# ViewSets define the view behavior.class UserViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):    queryset = User.objects.all()    serializer_class = UserSerializer# Routers provide an easy way of automatically determining the URL conf.router = routers.DefaultRouter()router.register(r'users', UserViewSet)# Wire up our API using automatic URL routing.# Additionally, we include login URLs for the browsable API.urlpatterns = [    url(r'^', include(router.urls)),    url(r'^api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls', namespace='rest_framework'))]

You can now open the API in your browser at , and view your new 'users' API. If you use the login control in the top right corner you'll also be able to add, create and delete users from the system.

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