django-debug-toolbar needs its output to be html, but django-tastypie's default output format is json.
I tried sending http://localhost/api/v1/resource/?format=html but it says Sorry, not implemented yet. Please append "?format=json" to your URL
Even though this doc lists html as one of valid option, it says its on the TODO list.
http://django-tastypie.readthedocs.org/en/latest/serialization.html#to-html
How do I use debug toolbar to debug tastypie api calls?
(eg, I'd like to see how many sql queries are being run for api calls.. and so on)
Maybe I can call the api from django views but how?
Here is a middleware I wrote for similar purposes that wraps json in HTML for enabling the debug toolbar and also pretty prints it. Furthermore, it supports binary data. I'm not using tastypie, but I think it should work with that too.
# settings-dev.py
from django.http import HttpResponse
import json
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES += (
'debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware',
'NonHtmlDebugToolbarMiddleware',
)
class NonHtmlDebugToolbarMiddleware(object):
"""
The Django Debug Toolbar usually only works for views that return HTML.
This middleware wraps any non-HTML response in HTML if the request
has a 'debug' query parameter (e.g. http://localhost/foo?debug)
Special handling for json (pretty printing) and
binary data (only show data length)
"""
@staticmethod
def process_response(request, response):
if request.GET.get('debug') == '':
if response['Content-Type'] == 'application/octet-stream':
new_content = '<html><body>Binary Data, ' \
'Length: {}</body></html>'.format(len(response.content))
response = HttpResponse(new_content)
elif response['Content-Type'] != 'text/html':
content = response.content
try:
json_ = json.loads(content)
content = json.dumps(json_, sort_keys=True, indent=2)
except ValueError:
pass
response = HttpResponse('<html><body><pre>{}'
'</pre></body></html>'.format(content))
return response