django-rest-coreapi-schema 0.1.2

django settings

Add the next configuration in your settings.py file.

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    'DEFAULT_SCHEMA_CLASS': 'django_rest_coreapi_schema.schema.CoreAPIAutoSchema',
}

Restframework docs (urls)

Add to your urls.py the restframework docs

from django.conf.urls import url
from rest_framework.documentation import include_docs_urls

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^docs/', include_docs_urls(title='My API title', description='API description', public=False)),
]

Create your serializers

from rest_framework import serializers


class UserSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    email = serializers.CharField(
        required=False,
        help_text="User email")
    address = serializers.CharField(
        required=False,
        help_text="User address")


class FilterSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    order = serializers.ChoiceField(
        required=False,
        choices=[("asc", "Asc"), ("desc", "desc")],
        help_text="Order")
    username = serializers.CharField(
        required=False,
        help_text="Username pattern")


class PathSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    username = serializers.CharField(
        required=True,
        help_text="Username")

Create your pagination

from rest_framework.pagination import PageNumberPagination


class LargeResultsSetPagination(PageNumberPagination):
    page_size = 1000
    page_size_query_param = 'page_size'
    max_page_size = 10000

Documenting path variables

You have to use the class variable: queryset

from django_rest_coreapi_schema.views import DocumentedBaseView

class UserView(DocumentedBaseView):
    queryset = PathSerializer

Url args

You have to use the class variables: filter_backends and filter_fields

• filter_backends is a list of serializers which contains all the possible url args.

• filter_fields is a list of arg names that will be appear in the coreapi documentation.

from django_rest_coreapi_schema.views import DocumentedBaseView

class UserListView(DocumentedBaseView):
    filter_backends = [FilterSerializer]
    filter_fields = ('order', 'username')

Body

Http put, post, etc. body.

from django_rest_coreapi_schema.views import DocumentedBaseView

class UserView(DocumentedBaseView):
    body_serializer_class = UserSerializer

Pagination (for large results)

from django_rest_coreapi_schema.views import DocumentedBaseView

class UserListView(DocumentedBaseView):
    pagination_class = LargeResultsSetPagination

You can see a whole example in examples/restAPI folder inside this repository.