Re: How to develop a frontend web app for using REST services

2015-10-19 Thread Xavier Ordoquy
There isn't much to say. ViewSet exposes the CRUD part, while serializer maps an object to native Python types. Regards, Xavier, Linovia. On Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 4:28:33 PM UTC+2, krmane wrote: > > Hi again, > Xavier, I have gone through the main DRF documentation and also seen your >

Re: How to develop a frontend web app for using REST services

2015-10-18 Thread kk
On Sunday 18 October 2015 06:51 PM, bobhaugen wrote: krmane, are you posting these same questions in the REST framework forum? I'm guessing they would like a SQLAlchemy plugin. If such a plugin does exist it is great. Unlike you, however, I like their documentation, and have found the DRF

Re: How to develop a frontend web app for using REST services

2015-10-18 Thread bobhaugen
krmane, are you posting these same questions in the REST framework forum? I'm guessing they would like a SQLAlchemy plugin. Unlike you, however, I like their documentation, and have found the DRF gang to be responsive to issues. That being said, I haven't actually used it in production yet. Ju

Re: How to develop a frontend web app for using REST services

2015-10-17 Thread kk
Hi again, Xavier, I have gone through the main DRF documentation and also seen your blog. I am wondering if you can send me an off line email which can explain the relation between serializer and viewset? I have not got the concept clear, I am beginner to REST and all I understand is that the r

Re: How to develop a frontend web app for using REST services

2015-10-17 Thread kk
Hi Xavier, well I am just not using the Django ORM. That does not mean I am not going to use ORM at all. I will be using sqlalchemy which my team is very proficient with when it comes to do even complex tasks. In addition we will be using baked queries etc for performance enhancements. So I gue

Re: How to develop a frontend web app for using REST services

2015-10-16 Thread C. Kirby
Hi, The reason the quality of the documentation for DRF is different than that of django proper is because DRF is a third party application with its own development, workflow, and documentation practivces.. Also because of that, you should probably be using the DRF group for questions about the

Re: How to develop a frontend web app for using REST services

2015-10-16 Thread Xavier Ordoquy
Hi, I wrote a short blog post about getting most of Django REST framework without using Django models. https://medium.com/@linovia/django-rest-framework-viewset-when-you-don-t-have-a-model-335a0490ba6f You will loose the integration with the Django Models and will need to do a few things by you

Re: How to develop a frontend web app for using REST services

2015-10-16 Thread kk
hello again, I haven't got my doubts solved but a few got added. I was again going through the tutorial on Django REST framework. I am trying to know if I can use a serialiser without tying it to the DJango ORM or for that matter without tying it to any thing? I prefer using SQLAlchemy and get th

How to develop a frontend web app for using REST services

2015-10-15 Thread kk
Dear all. I got some very important suggestions from members of this list on using Django for an accounting and inventory system, including Point of Sale. After the POS topic was discussed, OUr team decided to write a RESTfull server with all the business logic in API. We plan to do this using