simple-api-proxy-django

Scalable simple api proxy using django-rest-framework. This tool aggregates and caches info from various API's in a single call which responds lightweightly. This is particularly useful when you need info from various sources but want to ease the network load off of devices.

Requirements

1. Python 2.7
2. Django
3. Django-rest-framework
4. Redis
5. pycurl

Setup

1. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/Rafalonso/simple-api-proxy-django.git.
2. Create a virtual environment [recommended] http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs/
3. Install the dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt
4. Run using python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000.
5. Take you API for a spin! http://localhost:8000/.

Calling the API

This api comes with a sample request with the following url structure:  /events-with-subscriptions/$event_id/

To call this API you also need an admin user. Here is an example curl request. curl -u username:password http://127.0.0.1:8000/events/27b9fa174d3e8c317f585d3c86cb9d52_14768033385908/

It will reproduce this output

{ "event_id": "27b9fa174d3e8c317f585d3c86cb9d52_14768033385908", "names": [ "API", "Michel", "Jasper", "Bob", "Dennis", "Edmon", "Aslesha", "Lars" ], "title": "Drink a cup of coffee with C42 Team" }

In case the id is not found it will reproduce the following message:

{ "status code": 404, "message": "Event requested not found" }

Logging

Everything is logged in a file with the name set in settings.py

Running tests

In the project folder run python manage.py test