drf-openapi 0.9.6

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DRF OpenAPI
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Generates OpenAPI-compatible schema from API made with Django Rest Framework. Use `ReDoc <https://github.com/Rebilly/ReDoc>`_ as default interface instead of Swagger.
First-class support for API versioning changelog & method-specific schema definition.

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1. Background
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Django Rest Framework has an `API schema generation/declaration mechanism <http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/schemas/>`_ provided by
`coreapi <http://www.coreapi.org/>`_ standard. There are a couple of problems with the current ecosystem:

- CoreAPI is not compatible out of the box with `OpenAPI <https://www.openapis.org/>`_ which is a much more popular API standard with superior tooling support, i.e. Swagger et. al.
- The OpenAPI codec (compatibility layer) that CoreAPI team provides drops / doesn't support a number of useful OpenAPI features.
- There is no support for versioning or method-specific schema.

2. Requirements:
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This project was born to bridge the gap between DRF and OpenAPI. The high-level requirements are as followed:

- Can be dropped into any existing DRF project without any code change necessary.
- Provide clear disctinction between request schema and response schema.
- Provide a versioning mechanism for each schema. Support defining schema by version range syntax, e.g. :code:`>1.0, <=2.0`
- Support multiple response codes, not just :code:`200`
- All this information should be bound to view methods, not view classes.

It's important to stress the non-intrusiveness requirement, not least because I want to minimize what I will have to change when
DRF itself decides to support OpenAPI officially, if at all.

3. Design
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- Schema are automatically generated from `serializers <http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/serializers/>`_
* From here onwards, :code:`schema` and :code:`serializer` are used interchangably
- Versioned schema is supported by extending :code:`VersionedSerializers`.
- Metadata, i.e. versioning, response and request schema, are bound to a view method through the :code:`view_config` decorator.
- Extra schema information such as response status codes and their descriptions are bound to the serializer :code:`Meta` class
- Automatic response validation is optionally provided :code:`view_config(response_serializer=FooSerializer, validate_response=True)`

4. Constraints
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Currently DRF OpenAPI only supports DRF project that has `versioning <http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/versioning/#urlpathversioning>`_ enabled.
I have only tested `URLPathVersioning <http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/versioning/#urlpathversioning>`_ but I intend to suppor the full range of
versioning scheme supported by DRF.

Also the schema view is limited to staff member for now. I plan to add more granular permission very soon.

5. Examples
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Please read the `docs <https://drf-openapi.readthedocs.io>`_ for a quickstart.

Also I have recreated the example in `DRF tutorial <http://www.django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/>`_ with OpenAPI schema enabled
in `<examples/>`_.

6. License
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MIT


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History
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0.1.0 (2017-07-01)
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* First release on PyPI.

0.7.0 (2017-07-28)
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* Implement :code:`VersionedSerializer`
* Implement :code:`view_config`
* Make the library an installable Django app

0.8.0 (2017-07-28)
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* Some minor fixes to make sure it works on generic project
* Add examples

0.8.1 (2017-07-28)
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* Fix bug when parsing empty docstring of the serializer

0.9.0 (2017-07-28)
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* Rename base :code:`VersionedSerializer` into :code:`VersionedSerializers`

0.9.1 (2017-07-28)
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* Fix import issue after renaming

0.9.3 (2017-08-05)
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* Add support for different response status codes (`Issue 27 <https://github.com/limdauto/drf_openapi/issues/27>`_)

0.9.5 (2017-08-12)
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* Add Python 2.7 compatibility (thanks `tuffnatty <https://github.com/limdauto/drf_openapi/pull/35>`_)
* Add support for ModelViewSet (thanks `tuffnatty <https://github.com/limdauto/drf_openapi/pull/36>`_)

0.9.6 (2017-08-12)
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* Fix type display for child of ListSerializer/ListField (`Issue 28 <https://github.com/limdauto/drf_openapi/issues/28>`_)