Polls is a Django app to reach external APIs by mirroring DRF architecture.

1. Add "generic_api" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       ...
       'generic_api',
   ]
   

2. Create your session class that will hold the authentication and the base URL:

   from generic_api.session import ConstanceSession

   class MySession(ConstanceSession):

   base_url = 'https://baseurl/v1/' constance_key = 'MY_TOKEN'

3. Create the client that will perform the queries:

   from generic_api.errors_handler import HttpErrorsHandler from generic_api.generics import GenericClient

   class MyClient(GenericClient):

   session_class = MySession errors_handler_class = HttpErrorsHandler

4. Create the serializers for requests and responses:

   class MyRequestSerializer(serializers.Serializer):

   name = serializers.CharField()

   class MyResponseSerializer(serializers.Serializer):

   id = serializer.IntegerField()

Those are used to valid the request performed and the response received. If allows to detect quickly if something changed on the remote API

5. Create your endpoint:

   from generic_api.endpoints import GetEndpoint

   class MyEndpointEndpoint(GetEndpoint):

   endpoint_url = 'search/by_name' # This can take argument, like endpoint_url: '{}/list' client_class = MyClient response_entity_class = MyResponseSerializer request_entity_class = MyRequestSerializer

If your serializer are ModelSerializer, the object can be saved.

6. Use the endpoint:

   endpoint = MyEndpoint()

   data = endpoint.get(**kwargs) data = data.save()

This project is available on GitHub: https://github.com/guestready/generic_api