Hi all, I want to use DJango to implement an XML based RESTful API and a website together using DJango. I am wondering if anyone here is aware of any tutorials on ways of achieving this in DJango without duplicating too much code?
Basically what I want to achieve is to use the same core logic for both the website and the API and just have different presentation layers for the two systems. I have not seen any tutorials or the like on doing this sort of thing and was wondering if people here have suggestions on best approaches or tutorials that might show good ways to structure this. The idea is that all interaction using the API uses XML. The POST data sent to the server and responses from the server are all using an XML schema that we have designed for our application. All interaction with the website is the same but uses normal web forms etc for the interface of the presentation layer. Example API: * GET : https://mywebsite/api/rooms/ : List available rooms, returns XML with a list of Room ID's * POST : https://mywebsite/api/room/ : Create a new room, raw POST data is XML with the parameters required to create a room, on success returns a Room ID * GET : https://mywebsite/api/room/<room-id>/ : Retrieves details about an existing room * POST : https://mywebsite/api/room/<room-id>/ : Modifies details for an existing room * DELETE : https://mywebsite/api/room/<room-id>/ : Delete a room Now, on the website side of things I want to do exactly the same but as part of a a nice HTML site (with menus for navigation, nice graphs to display relevant data etc). Example Web: * GET : https://mywebsite/web/rooms/ : Displays a page with a list of links to available Rooms. * GET : https://mywebsite/web/room/ : Displays a page with a form requesting input of all necessary data to create a new room. * POST : https://mywebsite/web/room/ : Create a new room. POST data comes from form displayed previously (on error redisplays form). On success redirects the user to the details page for that room. * GET : https://mywebsite/web/room/<room-id>/ : Displays details about an existing room and provides it in a form that can be used to change the data with a POST * POST : https://mywebsite/web/room/<room-id>/ : Modifies details for an existing room * DELETE : https://mywebsite/web/room/<room-id>/ : Delete a room Thanks, Brendon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
