Django Boston - 2011

A quick (but not so quick IRL) introduction to Haystack & Tastypie.

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2. Hi.
3. I’m Daniel.
4. I run Toast Driven.
5. Haystack http://haystacksearch.org/
6. What’s Haystack? • Pluggable backends • Solr, Elasticsearch, Whoosh, Xapian • Advanced features • Faceting, More Like This, Spatial • Looks/feels like Django’s API
7. How so? • SearchIndex looks like a Form:
9. No, squint harder.
10. How so? • SearchQuerySet looks like QuerySet
11. Why?
12. Why? Don’t Make Me Think
13. Why? Don’t Make Me Think
14. Demo-Time.
15. So that’s Haystack.
16. So that’s Haystack.
17. Now for something a little different...
18. Tastypie http://tastypieapi.org/
19. What Is Tastypie? • A REST framework for Django • Extension by Design • Models (but not just Models) • Proper use of HTTP • Ideal for CRUD operations & beyond
20. Pie?
21. Pie? Pie? Pie? Pie? Pie? Pie? Pie? Pie?
22. He can’t haz. But you can!
23. Define A Resource
24. Hook Up The URLconf
25. Done.
26. What’d You Get? • Full GET / POST / PUT / DELETE / PATCH • Serialized in JSON / XML / YAML / bplist • Authentication • Filtering • Discovery Views • And more!
27. Demo-time.
28. HTTP 418
29. I’m Daniel Lindsley of Toast Driven @toastdriven http://toastdriven.com/
30. Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/strangejourney/3175383671/ http://www.peachpit.com/ShowCover.aspx?isbn=0321344758 http://corgiaddict.com/post/14272461379 http://www.flickr.com/photos/57928359@N08/5328229600/