Django Dans API Toolkit is a Django app to help make building APIs great.

It provides a collection of tools for common API tasks, intended to complement Django Rest Framework (DRF) rather than replace it.

Available on PyPi

The toolkit includes:

• API Response Handler (api_response_handler.py): Standardizes API response formats.
• API Response Renderer (api_response_renderer.py): Ensures consistent response rendering across your APIs.
• Base Serializer (serializers/base.py): Simplifies serializer creation with masking and reference functionality.

1. Install the package via pip:

   pip install django-dans-api-toolkit

2. Add django_dans_api_toolkit to your INSTALLED_APPS setting:

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       ...
       'django_dans_api_toolkit',
   ]

3. Run migrations to update your database schema:

   python manage.py migrate

4. Use the provided tools in your views and serializers.

from django_dans_api_toolkit.api_response_handler import ApiResponseHandler

def my_view(request):
    handler = ApiResponseHandler()
    data = {"key": "value"}
    return handler.response_success(results=data)

from django_dans_api_toolkit.serializers.base import BaseSerializer
from myapp.models import MyModel

class MyModelSerializer(BaseSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = MyModel
        fields = '__all__'
        ref_fields = ['field1', 'field2']
        masked_fields = ['field3']

Ensure DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES and DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS are set in your settings.py for proper API functionality. Set the renderer itself as well.

Example configuration:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    "DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS": "rest_framework.pagination.PageNumberPagination",
    "PAGE_SIZE": 20,
    "DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES": (
        "rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication",
    ),
}

• Python 3.10 - 3.11
• Django 3.1 or higher
• Django Rest Framework
  • NOTE: not only must you have this installed, you must have set DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES and DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS in your settings.py to work with the APIs properly. An example config would be: