drf-tracking

Overview

drf-tracking provides a Django model and DRF view mixin that work together to log Django Rest Framework requests to the database. You'll get these attributes for every request/response cycle to a view that uses the mixin:

Model field name	Description	Model field type
user	User if authenticated, None if not	Foreign Key
requested_at	Date-time that the request was made	DateTimeField
response_ms	Number of milliseconds spent in view code	PositiveIntegerField
path	Target URI of the request, e.g., "/api/"	CharField
remote_addr	IP address where the request originated (X_FORWARDED_FOR if available, REMOTE_ADDR if not), e.g., "127.0.0.1"	GenericIPAddressField
host	Originating host of the request, e.g., "example.com"	URLField
method	HTTP method, e.g., "GET"	CharField
query_params	Dictionary of request query parameters, as text	TextField
data	Dictionary of POST data (JSON or form), as text	TextField
response	JSON response data	TextField
status_code	HTTP status code, e.g., 200 or 404	PositiveIntegerField

Requirements

• Python 2.7
• Django (1.7, 1.8. 1.9)
• Django REST Framework (3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3)

Installation

Install using pip...

$ pip install drf-tracking

Register with your Django project by adding rest_framework_tracking to the INSTALLED_APPS list in your project's settings.py file. Then run the migrations for the APIRequestLog model:

$ python manage.py migrate

Usage

Add the rest_framework_tracking.mixins.LoggingMixin to any DRF view to create an instance of APIRequestLog every time the view is called.

For instance:

# views.py
from rest_framework import generics
from rest_framework_tracking.mixins import LoggingMixin

class LoggingView(LoggingMixin, generics.GenericAPIView):
    def get(self, request):
        return Response('with logging')

Testing

Install testing requirements.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Run with runtests.

$ ./runtests.py

You can also use the excellent tox testing tool to run the tests against all supported versions of Python and Django. Install tox globally, and then simply run:

$ tox

Documentation

To build the documentation, you'll need to install mkdocs.

$ pip install mkdocs

To preview the documentation:

$ mkdocs serve
Running at: http://127.0.0.1:8000/

To build the documentation:

$ mkdocs build