Django RESTful API - django-piston vs. django-tastypie

Question

We\'re looking for a general RESTful API solution for our Django project. We would use the API at first for Ajax calls on the web site and later for mobile apps, external apps a

Answer 1

I have no experience with this, but I trust Pydanny in this:

django-piston has been barely supported for nearly two years. That is an eternity, and the number of forks to address multiple issues is a cause for alarm. Because of that, in it's place at this time I recommend django-tastypie. It is up-to-date, has very good documentation, supports OAUTH, and scored second place in the Django Packages thunderdome (it got nearly 3x as many points!). Another tool to consider is Django Rest Framework, which is as good as django-tastypie but lacks the OAUTH support.

On the django-piston front, Joshua Ginsberg has taken over the reins and we should hopefully see some movement again. In which case I'll be able to remove this section of the blog post.

from Pydanny's blog.