django-piston

I've built a Django web application and some Django-Piston services. Using a web interface a user submits some data which is POSTed to a web service and that web service in turn uses Django-celery to start a background task. Everything works fine in the development environment using manage.py. Now I'm trying to move this to production on a proper apache server. The web application and web services work fine in production but I'm having serious issues starting celeryd as a daemon. Based on these instructions: http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/tutorials/daemonizing.html#running-the-worker

I realize there are a ton of questions on this subject, and I have been researching this for a couple days now. I want to make sure my question is as specific as possible since I have yet to gain a full understanding of the best approach. Currently I have a developed django site, with the web client communicating probably about 95% via a django-piston json REST api. The other 5% is some remaning login functionality that still goes through POST forms with CSRF protection. Ideally I would like to move the remainder also into the REST api. I am at the point now where I need to figure out the best

I have to write RESTFUL web-services with authentication in python using django framework which will be consumed by web based clients and mobile native apps (Android and IOS). the simple example would be that user will log in using email and password, he fetches the api key and stores it on the mobile device and then use this api key for consuming further api's instead of giving user credentials again and again. I am thinking of using TASTYPIE or Django piston for writing RESTFUL services but please suggest otherwise if you know any better solution. But my main focus is on the authentication

I have a model which contains a ManyToMany to User to keep track of which users have 'favorited' a particular model instance. In my API for this model, when requested by an authenticated user, I'd like to include an 'is_favorite' boolean. However, it seems that any api fields that aren't straight model attributes must be implemented as a class method, which when called in Piston does not get a reference to the request object, and therefore I have no way to know who the current user is. From the Piston docs: In addition to these, you may define any other methods you want. You can use these by

I have a dict that I want to convert in JSON using simplejson. How can I ensure that all the keys of my dict are lowercase ? { "DISTANCE": 17.059918745802999, "name": "Foo Bar", "Restaurant": { "name": "Foo Bar", "full_address": { "country": "France", "street": "Foo Bar", "zip_code": "68190", "city": "UNGERSHEIM" }, "phone": "+33.389624300", "longitude": "7.3064454", "latitude": "47.8769091", "id": "538" }, "price": "", "composition": "", "profils": {}, "type_menu": "", "ID": "" }, EDIT: Thanks all to had a look at my question, I am sorry I didn't explain in detailed why I wanted this. It was