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Seamless integration between Django REST framework and Datatables (https://datatables.net)

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Overview
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Seamless integration between Django REST framework and Datatables (https://datatables.net).

Install django-rest-framework-datatables, call your API with ``?format=datatables`` and it will return a JSON structure that is fully compatible with what Datatables expects.
It handles searching, filtering, ordering and most usecases you can imagine with Datatables.

The great benefit of django-rest-framework-datatables is that you don't have to create a different API, your API still work exactly the same unless you specify the ``datatables`` format on your request.

Full documentation is available on `Read the Docs <http://django-rest-framework-datatables.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_ !

Requirements
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- Python (2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6)
- Django (1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 2.0)
- Django REST Framework (3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8)

Quickstart
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Installation
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Just use ``pip``:

.. code:: bash

$ pip install djangorestframework-datatables

Configuration
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To enable Datatables support in your project, add ``'rest_framework_datatables'`` to your ``INSTALLED_APPS``, and modify your ``REST_FRAMEWORK`` settings like this:

.. code:: python

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES': (
'rest_framework.renderers.JSONRenderer',
'rest_framework.renderers.BrowsableAPIRenderer',
'rest_framework_datatables.renderers.DatatablesRenderer',
),
'DEFAULT_FILTER_BACKENDS': (
'rest_framework_datatables.filters.DatatablesFilterBackend',
),
'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS': 'rest_framework_datatables.pagination.DatatablesPageNumberPagination',
'PAGE_SIZE': 50,
}

And that's it !
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Your API is now fully compatible with Datatables and will provide searching, filtering, ordering and pagination without any modification of your API code !


An example of Datatable
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.. code:: html

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Rolling Stone Top 500 albums of all time</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.0.0/css/bootstrap.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.16/css/dataTables.bootstrap4.min.css">
</head>

<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-12">
<table id="albums" class="table table-striped table-bordered" style="width:100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Rank</th>
<th>Artist</th>
<th>Album name</th>
<th>Year</th>
<th>Genres</th>
</tr>
</thead>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"></script>
<script src="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.16/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<script src="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.16/js/dataTables.bootstrap4.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
var table = $('#albums').DataTable({
"serverSide": true,
"ajax": "/api/albums/?format=datatables",
"columns": [
{"data": "rank", "searchable": false},
{"data": "artist_name", "name": "artist.name"},
{"data": "name"},
{"data": "year"},
{"data": "genres", "name": "genres.name", "sortable": false},
]
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>

Example project
---------------

To play with the example project, just clone the repository and run the dev server.

.. code:: bash

$ git clone https://github.com/izimobil/django-rest-framework-datatables.git
$ cd django-rest-framework-datatables
$ python example/manage.py runserver
$ firefox http://127.0.0.1:8000

Testing
-------

Install development requirements.

.. code:: bash

$ pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

Run the tests.

.. code:: bash

$ python example/manage.py test

You can also use the excellent `tox`_ testing tool to run the tests
against all supported versions of Python and Django. Install tox
globally, and then simply run:

.. code:: bash

$ tox

If you want to check the coverage, use:

.. code:: bash

$ coverage run ./example/manage.py test
$ coverage report -m

Documentation
-------------

To build the documentation, you’ll need to install ``sphinx``.

.. code:: bash

$ pip install -r requirements-docs.txt

To build the documentation:

.. code:: bash

$ cd docs
$ make clean && make build


.. _tox: http://tox.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

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Changelog
=========

Version 0.2.0 (2018-04-11):
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- Added full documentation
- Removed serializers, they are no longer necessary, filtering of columns is made by the renderer

Version 0.1.0 (2018-04-10):
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Initial release.

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