Is django-piston mature enough?

Question

I'm developing an advertising site and want to use web services for the requests. I mean, a publisher site will put a JavaScript snippet and it will pull a banner through a REST GET.

Is the django-piston framework mature enough to implement this functionality?

Answer 1

I've been looking into finding the "best" Django REST package and came across this table, which is useful:

http://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/api/

At this point (mid-2011) Django-Tastypie is the clear winner for number of authors, updated codebase, documentation, and overall activity.

EDIT, Jan.2012: I think the two leading contenders are now Django-Tastypie, and also, Django-REST-framework. The latter has a really useful feature of web-browsable APIs, which I've yet to see in other packages.

Answer 2

I am currently using it and it's good enough for my needs, which are fairly simple (mostly just an easy way to set up a read-only API for model data). I do have a couple of criticisms:

1. It doesn't seem that jespern, the code's creator, is doing much in response to issues posted to bitbucket. Possibly an unfair criticism, and activity in the django-piston Google Group. Still it's frustrating to post an issue and encounter zero response whatsoever.

2. It appears there are some inconsistencies or errors in the coding. For example, this issue that I posted. (I may pursue it further in the group).