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REST API frontend abstraction #69

Open pastewka opened 1 month ago

pastewka commented 1 month ago

The code currently directly interacts with the REST API, in the sense that individual components issue GET, PUT etc. requests and consume the output.

This issue suggests refactoring part of this code to mirror backend ORM classes in the frontend.

Suggested steps:

Implement OpenAPI documentation for the backend, e.g. using django-spectacular
Generate automatic frontend classes, e.g. using openapi-ts
Switch code to use this abstraction layer

A key advantage of this is:

Checking the reponse against a schema (encoded in the frontend classes)
Easier testing because those classes can be mocked

pastewka commented 2 weeks ago

See also: https://github.com/ContactEngineering/topobank/issues/1094