django-reversion-rest-framework

A package for adding a django-reversion history endpoint to django-rest-framework ModelViewSet.

Configuration

Follow the official website for the installation and the integration of django-reversion in your project, otherwise future steps won't work.

You might need to enable the ReversionMiddleware for storing a version for each API change.
Follow the instructions here, you should add 'reversion.middleware.RevisionMiddleware' to your MIDDLEWARE setting.

Using the HistoryModelViewSet

The HistoryModelViewSet extends django-rest-framework's ModelViewSet adding

• a GET history action in the detail (/my-model-url/<pk>/history/)

  displaying a list of all revisions of that specific record

• a GET version action in the history detail (/my-model-url/<pk>/history/<version_pk>/)

  displaying a specific revisions of that specific record

• a GET deleted action in the list (/my-model-url/deleted/)

  displaying a list of all deleted records

• a POST revert action in the detail (/my-model-url/<pk>/revert/<version_pk>/)

  allowing users to revert to a previous revision of the object

You can use the HistoryModelViewSet in place of the ModelViewSet during viewsets definition.

from reversion_rest_framework.viewsets import HistoryModelViewSet


class MyModelViewSet(HistoryModelViewSet):
    # ...

For advanced or selective implementation, you can use reversion_rest_framework.mixins.

• HistoryMixin contains history and version actions

• DeletedMixin contains only the deleted action

• ReadOnlyMixin contains history, version and deleted actions

• RevertMixin contains history, version and revert actions

Customizing the VersionSerializer

The HistoryModelViewSet comes up with actions using a VersionSerializer.
To customize the serializer with one of your own, you can use version_serializer.
For example, if you want to customize the user serializer inside a revision, you can use the following code:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from rest_framework import serializers
from reversion.models import Revision, Version
from reversion_rest_framework.serializers import (
    RevisionSerializer,
    VersionSerializer,
)
from reversion_rest_framework.viewsets import HistoryModelViewSet


class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ["id", "username"]


class CustomRevisionSerializer(RevisionSerializer):
    user = UserSerializer()


class CustomVersionSerializer(VersionSerializer):
    revision = CustomRevisionSerializer()


class MyModelViewSet(HistoryModelViewSet):
    version_serializer = CustomVersionSerializer
    # ...