Django TalkTo

Overview

Django TalkTo allows you to consume RESTful APIs seamlessly without need to create database

Model

• TalkToModel, inherits the django Model class, but won't create any migration files, 😃
• APIManager, inherits Django Manager(I won't touch your DB i promise 😋 )

ModelForm

• TalkToModelForm, inherits Django ModelForm.

Views

• TalkToWriteView which makes POST/PUT request to an endpoint (Django CreateView and UpdateView in one pot 😉 )

• TalkToListView which makes GET request to an endpoint (Django ListView, no bigs)

• TalkToDetailView which makes GET request with a parameter (Django DetailView)

Django Rest Framework support

You can also use Django TalkTo with Django Rest Framework

Serializer

• TalkToModelSerializer, inherits DRF ModelSerializer, that won't touch the DB, cool right?

View

• TalkToAPIView which makes POST, GET and PUT requests. DELETE requests coming soon.

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Installation

Install using pip

pip install djangotalkto

Notes to Django Rest Framework users

You need to have djangorestframework installed and added to INSTALLED_APPS in settings. You can install it with djangotalkto using

pip install djangotalkto[rest]

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Usage

Start a new django project

pip install django
django-admin startproject newproj .
pip install djangotalkto

Add 'talkto' to INSTALLED_APPS in your project settings

Then create TALKTO dict in your settings with the following properties

TALKTO = {
    'default': {
        'URL': 'your-api-base-url', #Important!
        'HEADERS': {key: value}, # You can add your Authorization here
    }

}

Creating your Model

from talkto.models import TalkToModel, APIManager
from django.db import models
class SampleModel(TalkToModel):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    age = models.IntegerField()
    
    # Then add your APIManager with the variable name 'api'
    
    api = APIManager(path='user/')
    
    # 'path' in this case is the path you will be making your request which is 
    # concatenated with the URL set in TALKTO config in settings.py

Creating your ModelForm is much like the same.

from talkto.forms import TalkToModelForm


class SampleForm(TalkToModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = SampleModel
        fields = '__all__'

Views

from talkto.views import TalkToWriteView, TalkToDetailView, TalkToListView

class TestCreate(TalkToWriteView):
    form_class = SampleForm
    model = SampleModel
    success_url = reverse_lazy('books')
    template_name = 'index.html'
  
# Detail view
  
class SampleDetail(TalkToDetailView):
    model = SampleModel
    template_name = 'detail.html'
    
    
# List view

class SampleList(TalkToListView):
    model = SampleModel
    template_name = 'detail.html'

URLConf works the same.

Django Rest Framework

Serializer

from talkto.serializer import TalkToModelSerializer

class SampleSerializer(TalkToModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = SampleModel
        fields = '__all__'

API View

class SampleView(TalkToAPIView):
    model = SampleModel
    serializer_class = SampleSerializer

URLConf works the same.

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CONTRIBUTING

coming soon....

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Supports

As this is still in it's early project there might be some use cases that are not covered. Therefore you can contact me using the following channels.

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