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You can directly implement views based on the request method with django's class based views (View) in 1.3. The dispatch method does almost exactly what your restful function does.

Just inherit from View, and define get(), post(), etc.

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Or you could create restful APIs simply with django-piston, django-tastypie or (my new personal favorite) django-dagny.

Yes, and there is already a decent wrapper for backbone and tastypie http://joshbohde.com/blog/backbonejs-and-django This is my personal favorite.

Nice tutorial, thanks!

Thanks for the recommendation! I'm glad you like it.

As far as wrappers for backbone and tastypie, I think https://github.com/PaulUithol/backbone-tastypie is a pretty good starting point, and a little more complete than what I wrote there.

Oh, I thought they were related until now. This one is actually what I _use_. Yours is what came up in a search.

I'll throw Django REST Framework in the mix there as well: http://django-rest-framework.org/

Why? See http://django-rest-framework.org/howto/alternativeframeworks...

I was going to suggest this as well. Each resource can be a class that has a function defined for each method.

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