Prestans 2.0

A WSGI compliant REST micro-framework.

As of January 2021 prestans is no longer under active development. The intention behind prestans was to bring lightweight, well understood development of RESTful services in Python. That gap has now been filled with many more frameworks with better performance and more modern approaches. Our team thanks you for using prestans in your projects, but recommends you to move to other frameworks.

Prestans is a REST micro-framework built right on top of WSGI, designed to perform and co-exists with other middleware and frameworks that you employ. Our target audience are developers building large REST backends for use with pure Ajax (using a framework like Google Closure) or mobile applications. prestans is designed for you to "take as much or as little" as you like.

We recommend you install via pip.

Features:

• Built right on top of WSGI, designed ground up to cooperate with other frameworks
• Strong representative of REST philosophies leveraging HTTP headers and verbs
• Support for multiple dialects, including formalised patterns for binary content
• Handlers maps HTTP verbs to implemented class methods, complimented with custom request parser and response writer (built on top of WebOb)
• Unforgivingly strict parsing of requests and responses to ensure data integrity
• Helper methods to ease transformation of persistent objects to REST responses
• Pluggable integration to authentication

Prestans ensures that we provide extensive and useful documentation, published at available on Read The Docs. Sphinx source available on Github.

Prestans also offers a set of client side tools to compliment Google Closure.

If you are still wondering prestans is a latin word meaning "excellent, distinguished, imminent."

Getting Help

We recommend the use of our mailing lists as the primary way of getting help:

• Discuss used for general discussion.
• Announce used for release and security announcements

Reporting Issues

We prefer the use of our Issue Tracker on Github, to triage feature requests, bug reports.

Before you lodge a lodge a ticket:

• Seek wisdom from our comprehensive documentation
• Check to ensure that you are not lodging a duplicate request
• Search the Web to see that it’s not something to do with your server environment (versions of Web server, WSGI connectors, etc)
• Ensure that you ask a question on our list, there might already be answer out there or we might have already acknowledged the issue

When reporting issues:

• Include as much detail as you can about your environment (e.g Server OS, Web Server Version, WSGI connector)
• Steps that we can use to replicate the bug
• Share a bit of your application code with us, it goes a long way to replicate issues