MessagePack is a fast, compact binary serialization format, suitable for similar data to JSON. This package provides MessagePack support for Django REST framework.

Install using pip:

$ pip install djangorestframework-msgpack

...or clone the project from github:

$ git clone git@github.com:juanriaza/django-rest-framework-msgpack.git
$ cd django-rest-framework-msgpack
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

This package provides a renderer MessagePackRenderer and a parser MessagePackParser.

Just follow the documentation:

• Setting the renderer.
• Setting the parser.

Renders the request data into MessagePack.

Parses MessagePack request content.

To run the tests against the current environment:

./manage.py test

22th Apr 2017

• Match current DRF api (by V.Korol - @vakorol)
• python-dateutil unpinned version (by Justin Whitehead - @whitej125)
• Python 3 compatibility (by Roberto Barreda @robertobarreda and @cecedille1)

15th Jan 2012

• The parser now support streams (by Sébastien Béal - @sebastibe)

6th Jan 2012

• Initial release