rest-api-response

Production API Response

A go-to production API response with an easy format for building APIs with Python.

Quickstart

To get it running, follow the steps below:

1). Pip install the package in your project terminal:

pip install rest-api-response

2). In the file (.py) that you wish to use it, import it:

from rest_api_response import success_response, error_response

That's pretty much it - you can now call the function and pass the required arguments!

Example

Suppose you have an API class that returns a list of blog posts to a client:

# imports goes here
...
class PostListAPIView(views.APIView):
    serializer_class = PostSerializer

    def get(self, request):
        """Returns a list of posts"""

        posts = Post.objects.all()
        serializer = self.serializer_class(posts, many=True)
        return Response(serializer.data)

The API response would be:

[
    {
        "title": "First blog post", 
        "content": "Lorem ipsume content", 
        "author": 1
    },
    {
        "title": "Second blog post", 
        "content": "Lorem ipsume content", 
        "author": 2
    },
    {
        "title": "Third blog post", 
        "content": "Lorem ipsume content", 
        "author": 3
    }
]

This works too, but let's take the response to the next level by doing this:

# imports goes here
...
from rest_api_response import success_response


class PostListAPIView(views.APIView):
    serializer_class = PostSerializer

    def get(self, request):
        """Returns a list of posts"""

        posts = Post.objects.all()
        serializer = self.serializer_class(posts, many=True)
        _response = success_response(
            message="Post retrieved!",
            data=serializer.data
        )
        return Response(data=_response, status=status.HTTP_200_OK)

The API response would be:

[   
    "status": true, 
    "message": "Posts retrieved!", 
    "data": [
        {
            "title": "First blog post", 
            "content": "Lorem ipsume content", 
            "author": 1
        },
        {
            "title": "Second blog post", 
            "content": "Lorem ipsume content", 
            "author": 2
        },
        {
            "title": "Third blog post", 
            "content": "Lorem ipsume content", 
            "author": 3
        }
    ]
]

And that's it. You have a nicely catchy response. :-)

Contribute

All contributions are welcome:

• Read the issues, Fork the project and do a Pull Request.
• Request a new topic creating a New issue with the enhancement tag.
• Find any kind of errors in the README and create a New issue with the details or fork the project and do a Pull Request.
• Suggest a better or more pythonic way for existing examples.