django-rest-framework-docs 0.1.0

Quick start

1. Add “rest_framework_docs” to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

   INSTALLED_APPS = (
       ...
       'rest_framework_docs',
   )

2. Include the polls URLconf in your project urls.py like this:

   url(r'^rest-api/', include('rest_framework_docs.urls')),

3. View /rest-api/docs to see you Django Rest Framework endpoints

How it works

The Django Rest Framework Docs scans your projects URL patterns for endpoints inheriting from Django Rest Framework views. Here are the components used to generate documentation for your endpoints:

1. The name attribute from the URL pattern is used as the title url(r’^api/countries/?$’, views.Countries.as_view(), name=’list_of_countries’),

2. The class doctsring is used as the description:

   class Countries(APIView):
       """
       This text is the description for this API
       """

3. The class model. (ie. User)

4. Allowed methods (GET, POST, PUT, etc.)

5. Serializer properties. If your API uses a serializer, the properties are listed

5. Custom parameters. It is possible to customize a parameter list for your API. To do so, include a key-value pair in the docstring of your API class delimited by two hyphens (’–‘).

   Example: ‘start_time – The first reading’:

   class Countries(APIView):
       """
       This text is the description for this API
       param1 -- A first parameter
       param2 -- A second parameter
       """

Many thanks to Tom Christie for developing the Django Rest Framework.