Django Rest Framework Msgpack

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:Version: 1.0.2 :Author: Juan Riaza <http://juanriaza.com>_

Overview

MessagePack <http://msgpack.org>_ is a fast, compact binary serialization format, suitable for similar data to JSON. This package provides MessagePack <http://msgpack.org>_ support for Django REST framework <http://django-rest-framework.org>_.

How to install

Install using pip:

.. code-block:: bash

$ pip install djangorestframework-msgpack

...or clone the project from github:

.. code-block:: bash

$ git clone [email protected]: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 <http://django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/renderers.html#setting-the-renderers>_.
• Setting the parser <http://django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/parsers.html#setting-the-parsers>_.

rest_framework_msgpack.renderers.MessagePackRenderer

Renders the request data into MessagePack.

:.media_type: application/msgpack :.format: .msgpack

rest_framework_msgpack.parsers.MessagePackParser

Parses MessagePack request content.

:.media_type: application/msgpack

Running the tests

To run the tests against the current environment::

./manage.py test

Changelog

1.0.2

22th Apr 2017

• Match current DRF api (by V.Korol - @vakorol)
• python-dateutil unpinned version (by Justin Whitehead - @whitej125)
• Python 3 compatibility (by Roberto Barreda @robertobarreda and @cecedille1)

1.0.1

15th Jan 2012

• The parser now support streams (by Sébastien Béal - @sebastibe)

1.0.0

6th Jan 2012

• Initial release