Use an external REST API in django admin

[micka]

Hello,

I wish I could use the data from an external API in the administration of Django. I wish I could list, read, edit and create objects but instead of using a postgres database, I would use a REST API.

Do you know a module to do it or resources that could help me?

Thank you !

[Vijay Khemlani]

django rest framework would be your best bet

http://www.django-rest-framework.org/

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[mottaz hejaze]

even REST API needs a database managments system like postgre or mysql

so the lowest layer is postgre or mysql or mongodb 

the upper layer on top of any one of them , your backend REST API 

read about DMS and REST API

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[mathieu mickael]

ok thank you very much

2018-07-17 4:15 GMT+02:00 mottaz hejaze <trapp...@gmail.com>:

even REST API needs a database managments system like postgre or mysql

so the lowest layer is postgre or mysql or mongodb 

the upper layer on top of any one of them , your backend REST API 

read about DMS and REST API

On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, 20:44 Vijay Khemlani, <vkhe...@gmail.com> wrote:

django rest framework would be your best bet

http://www.django-rest-framework.org/

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 10:16 AM micka <mickael.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I wish I could use the data from an external API in the administration of Django. I wish I could list, read, edit and create objects but instead of using a postgres database, I would use a REST API.

Do you know a module to do it or resources that could help me?

Thank you !

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[Derek]

If you were accessing a third-party API you could have a ForeignDataWrapper table linked to it.  I have never tried this, and not sure if this would conflict with Django's ORM expectations.

[Melvyn Sopacua]

On maandag 16 juli 2018 20:36:00 CEST Vijay Khemlani wrote:
> django rest framework would be your best bet
>
> http://www.django-rest-framework.org/

For prosperity:

No, that would not help at all. DRF is used to *provide* an API to others. He
wants to *use* an API as if it was a model. So save would PUT data to a REST
api and not bother with database storage at all.

While possible, you'll have a hard time writing it as nothing in Django's
models is going to be of any help. Getting it to perform well, is also a hard
for a very simple reason: all your saving and loading is going to go over a
network connection. Not to mention figuring out relations...

However, I don't understand your wish: what is the upside of storing data in a
rest api this way?
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