muffin-rest

The package provides enhanced support for writing REST APIs with Muffin framework


Keywords
rest, api, muffin, asgi, asyncio, trio, rest-api
License
MIT
Install
pip install muffin-rest==4.6.2

Documentation

Muffin‑REST

Muffin‑REST simplifies building RESTful APIs with Muffin by offering:

  • Declarative API class with resource registration
  • Built-in filtering, sorting, pagination, and search
  • Support for:
  • Swagger/OpenAPI autodocumentation
  • Works with asyncio, Trio, and Curio

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Requirements

  • Python >= 3.10
  • Trio requires Peewee backend

Installation

Install core package:

pip install muffin-rest

Add optional backend support:

  • SQLAlchemy Core: pip install muffin-rest[sqlalchemy]
  • Peewee ORM: pip install muffin-rest[peewee]
  • YAML support for Swagger: pip install muffin-rest[yaml]

Quickstart (Peewee example)

from muffin import Application
from muffin_rest import API
from muffin_rest.peewee import PeeweeEndpoint
from models import User  # your Peewee model

app = Application("myapp")
api = API(title="User Service", version="1.0")

@api.route
class UsersEndpoint(PeeweeEndpoint):
    class Meta:
        model = User
        lookup_field = "id"
        filters = ["name", "email"]
        ordering = ["-created_at"]

api.setup(app, prefix="/api", swagger=True)

Endpoints available:

  • GET /api/users/ — list with pagination, search, filtering
  • POST /api/users/ — create
  • GET /api/users/{id}/ — retrieve
  • PUT /api/users/{id}/ — replace
  • PATCH /api/users/{id}/ — update
  • DELETE /api/users/{id}/ — remove
  • Docs: /api/docs/, OpenAPI spec: /api/openapi.json

Usage with SQLAlchemy

from muffin_rest import API
from muffin_rest.sqlalchemy import SAEndpoint
from models import my_table, db_engine

api = API()
@api.route
class MySAEndpoint(SAEndpoint):
    class Meta:
        table = my_table
        database = db_engine

api.setup(app)

Usage with MongoDB

from muffin_rest import API
from muffin_rest.mongo import MongoEndpoint
from models import mongo_collection

api = API()
@api.route
class MyMongoEndpoint(MongoEndpoint):
    class Meta:
        collection = mongo_collection

api.setup(app)

Advanced Configuration

Customize Swagger and routes via constructor:

api = API(
    title="Service API",
    version="2.1",
    swagger_ui=True,
    openapi_path="/api/openapi.json",
    docs_path="/api/docs/"
)

Contributing & Examples

  • See examples/ for live application demos
  • Tests in tests/ focus on filtering, pagination, status codes
  • Check CHANGELOG.md for latest changes

Bug Tracker

Report bugs or request features: https://github.com/klen/muffin-rest/issues

Contributing

Repo: https://github.com/klen/muffin-rest Pull requests, example additions, docs improvements welcome!

Contributors

  • klen (Kirill Klenov)

License

Licensed under the MIT license.