Django Rest Framework Msgpack

Overview

MessagePack is a fast, compact binary serialization format, suitable for similar data to JSON. This package provides MessagePack support for Django REST framework.

How to install

Install using pip:

$ pip install djangorestframework-msgpack

...or clone the project from github:

$ git clone git@github.com:juanriaza/django-rest-framework-msgpack.git
$ cd django-rest-framework-msgpack
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

How use it?

This package provides a renderer MessagePackRenderer and a parser MessagePackParser.

Setting the renderer and the parser

Just follow the documentation:

• Setting the renderer.
• Setting the parser.

rest_framework_msgpack.renderers.MessagePackRenderer

Renders the request data into MessagePack.

rest_framework_msgpack.parsers.MessagePackParser

Parses MessagePack request content.

Running the tests

To run the tests against the current environment:

./manage.py test

Changelog

1.0.1

15th Jan 2012

• The parser now support streams (by Sébastien Béal)

1.0.0

6th Jan 2012

• Initial release