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        "description": "# django-remote-forms\n\nA package that allows you to serialize django forms, including fields and widgets into Python\ndictionary for easy conversion into JSON and expose over API\n\nPlease go through my [djangocon US 2012 talk](http://www.slideshare.net/tarequeh/django-forms-in-a-web-api-world)\nto understand the problem sphere, motivations, challenges and implementation of Remote Forms\n\n## Sample Implementation\n\nIf you don't mind digging around a little bit to learn about different the components that might be\nnecessary for an implementation of django-remote-forms, check out\ndjango Remote Admin [django-remote-admin](https://github.com/tarequeh/django-remote-admin)\n\n## Usage\n\n### Minimal Example\n\n```python\nfrom django_remote_forms.forms import RemoteForm\n\nform = LoginForm()\nremote_form = RemoteForm(form)\nremote_form_dict = remote_form.as_dict()\n```\n\nUpon converting the dictionary into JSON, it looks like this:\n\n```json\n{\n    \"is_bound\": false,\n    \"non_field_errors\": [],\n    \"errors\": {},\n    \"title\": \"LoginForm\",\n    \"fields\": {\n        \"username\": {\n            \"title\": \"CharField\",\n            \"required\": true,\n            \"label\": \"Username\",\n            \"initial\": null,\n            \"help_text\": \"This is your django username\",\n            \"error_messages\": {\n                \"required\": \"This field is required.\",\n                \"invalid\": \"Enter a valid value.\"\n            },\n            \"widget\": {\n                \"title\": \"TextInput\",\n                \"is_hidden\": false,\n                \"needs_multipart_form\": false,\n                \"is_localized\": false,\n                \"is_required\": true,\n                \"attrs\": {\n                    \"maxlength\": \"30\"\n                },\n                \"input_type\": \"text\"\n            },\n            \"min_length\": 6,\n            \"max_length\": 30\n        },\n        \"password\": {\n            \"title\": \"CharField\",\n            \"required\": true,\n            \"label\": \"Password\",\n            \"initial\": null,\n            \"help_text\": \"\",\n            \"error_messages\": {\n                \"required\": \"This field is required.\",\n                \"invalid\": \"Enter a valid value.\"\n            },\n            \"widget\": {\n                \"title\": \"PasswordInput\",\n                \"is_hidden\": false,\n                \"needs_multipart_form\": false,\n                \"is_localized\": false,\n                \"is_required\": true,\n                \"attrs\": {\n                    \"maxlength\": \"128\"\n                },\n                \"input_type\": \"password\"\n            },\n            \"min_length\": 6,\n            \"max_length\": 128\n        }\n    },\n    \"label_suffix\": \":\",\n    \"prefix\": null,\n    \"csrfmiddlewaretoken\": \"2M3MDgfzBmkmBrJ9U0MuYUdy8vgeCCgw\",\n    \"data\": {\n        \"username\": null,\n        \"password\": null\n    }\n}\n```\n\n### An API endpoint serving remote forms\n\n```python\nfrom django.core.serializers.json import simplejson as json, DjangoJSONEncoder\nfrom django.http import HttpResponse\nfrom django.middleware.csrf import CsrfViewMiddleware\nfrom django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt\n\nfrom django_remote_forms.forms import RemoteForm\n\nfrom my_awesome_project.forms import MyAwesomeForm\n\n\n@csrf_exempt\ndef my_ajax_view(request):\n    csrf_middleware = CsrfViewMiddleware()\n\n    response_data = {}\n    if request.method == 'GET':\n        # Get form definition\n        form = MyAwesomeForm()\n    elif request.raw_post_data:\n        request.POST = json.loads(request.raw_post_data)\n        # Process request for CSRF\n        csrf_middleware.process_view(request, None, None, None)\n        form_data = request.POST.get('data', {})\n        form = MyAwesomeForm(form_data)\n        if form.is_valid():\n            form.save()\n\n    remote_form = RemoteForm(form)\n    # Errors in response_data['non_field_errors'] and response_data['errors']\n    response_data.update(remote_form.as_dict())\n\n    response = HttpResponse(\n        json.dumps(response_data, cls=DjangoJSONEncoder),\n        mimetype=\"application/json\"\n    )\n\n    # Process response for CSRF\n    csrf_middleware.process_response(request, response)\n    return response\n```\n\n## djangocon Proposal\n\nThis is a bit lengthy. But if you want to know more about my motivations behind developing django-remote-forms\nthen read on.\n\n\n>In our quest to modularize the architecture of web applications, we create self-containing backend\n>systems that provide web APIs for programmatic interactions. This gives us the flexibility to\n>separate different system components. A system with multiple backend components e.g. user profile\n>engine, content engine, community engine, analytics engine may have a single frontend application\n>that fetches data from all of these components using respective web APIs.\n\n>With the increased availability of powerful JavaScript frameworks, such frontend applications are\n>often purely JS based to decrease application footprint, increase deployment flexibility and\n>separate presentation from data. The separation is very rewarding from a software engineering\n>standpoint but imposes several limitations on system design. Using django to construct the API for\n>arbitrary consumers comes with the limitation of not being able to utilize the powerful django form\n>subsystem to drive forms on these consumers. But is there a way to overcome this restriction?\n\n>This is not a trivial problem to solve and there are only a few assumptions we can make about the\n>web API consumer. It can be a native mobile or desktop - application or browser. We advocate that\n>web APIs should provide sufficient information about 'forms' so that they can be faithfully\n>reproduced at the consumer end.\n\n>Even in a API backend built using django, forms are essential for accepting, filtering, processing\n>and saving data. The django form subsystem provides many useful features to accomplish these tasks.\n>At the same time it facilitates the process of rendering the form elements in a browser\n>environment. 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