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REST Framework YAML

YAML support for Django REST Framework

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Overview

YAML support extracted as a third party package directly from the official Django REST Framework implementation. It's built using the PyYAML package.

Requirements

• Python (2.7, 3.3, 3.4)
• Django (1.6, 1.7)

Installation

Install using pip...

$ pip install djangorestframework-yaml

Example

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    'DEFAULT_PARSER_CLASSES': (
        'rest_framework_yaml.parsers.YAMLParser',
    ),
    'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES': (
        'rest_framework_yaml.renderers.YAMLRenderer',
    ),
}

You can also set the renderer and parser used for an individual view, or viewset, using the APIView class based views.

from rest_framework.response import Response
from rest_framework.views import APIView
from rest_framework_yaml.parsers import YAMLParser
from rest_framework_yaml.renderers import YAMLRenderer

class ExampleView(APIView):
    """
    A view that can accept POST requests with YAML content.
    """
    parser_classes = (YAMLParser,)
    renderer_classes = (YAMLRenderer,)

    def post(self, request, format=None):
        return Response({'received data': request.DATA})

Sample output

---
-
  email: jpadilla@example.com
  is_staff: true
  url: "http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/1/"
  username: jpadilla

Testing

Install testing requirements.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Run with runtests.

$ ./runtests.py

You can also use the excellent tox testing tool to run the tests against all supported versions of Python and Django. Install tox globally, and then simply run:

$ tox

Documentation

To build the documentation, you'll need to install mkdocs.

$ pip install mkdocs

To preview the documentation:

$ mkdocs serve
Running at: http://127.0.0.1:8000/

To build the documentation:

$ mkdocs build