Sessions at PyCon US 2012 about Web APIs on Saturday 10th March

Providing full-featured REST APIs is an increasingly popular request. Tastypie allows you to easily implement a customizable REST API for your Python or Django applications.

Who am I? (Primary author of Tastypie)
Why REST?
A touch of philosophy

Use HTTP the best we can
Flexible serialization (not everyone wants JSON)
What you can GET should be able to be POST/PUT
Should be reasonable by default but easy to extend
URIs Everywhere!
Why Tastypie?

Works with Django
Full GET/POST/PUT/DELETE/PATCH
Any data source (Not just ORM)
Designed to be extensible
Supports a variety of serialization formats (JSON/XML/YAML/bplist)
URIs everywhere by default
Lots of hooks for customization
Demonstrate a simple setup

Then explore the API based on that trivial setup
Demonstrate adding authentication/authorization

Demonstrate adding custom serialization
Demonstrate adding a different data source
Demonstrate adding a custom endpoint