Preliminar note

This is a forked version of tastypie-nonrel tuned to fit my needs (and actually to make it work). Use it at your own risk.

From the forked version, the following improvement have been made:

• Added a ForeignKeyList field, allowing to have a list of related object represented by an ObjectID to another resource
• Improved the POST methods on EmbeddedModelField and EmbeddedListField
• Added support for GET and POST methods on nested resources.

I'm glad to maintain it, so feel free to try it out and to send me feedbacks.

Introduction

This is an extension of django-tastypie to support django-nonrel the fork of django with nonrelational backends, and MongoDB in particular.

It should proof useful when Django 1.4 incorporates non-relational backends.

Still under development.

Usage

Similar to djangtastypie but instead of use ModelRessource use MongoRessource that you have to import from tastypie_nonrel.ressources instead of tastypie.ressources.

The best way to learn how to use this library is to check the unit tests : test/test_app/tests.py

Running tests

In order to run the tests, you should:

Get mongod running in your localhost.

Download the latest version from here:

http://www.mongodb.org/downloads

Instructions to install it in mac os x can be found here:

http://shiftcommathree.com/articles/how-to-install-mongodb-on-os-x

I would recommend using virtualenvwrapper: http://www.doughellmann.com/projects/virtualenvwrapper/

Create a new environment, like so if you set up virtualenvwrapper

mkvirtualenv --no-site-packages django-tastypie-nonrel

Or create one right here and get in it

virtualenv --no-site-packages django_tastypie_nonrel-env source django_tastypie_nonrel-env/bin/activate

Install reqs

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run tests

python manage.py test test_app

Not very surprisingly, most of the fields were easily repurposed for non-relational fields. List and Dict fields are working fine, it seems.

Embedded fields reuse ToOneField. They are working except for update operations. This is because in # order to update, django-mongodb-engine uses A queries: http://django-mongodb-engine.github.com/mongodb-engine/embedded-objects.html#updating

ListFields of EmbeddedFields use ToManyField and work for read, and almost for write

ForeignKeyList act the same as EmbeddedListField, but contains only ObjectID to other related resources.