Seriously, take a look a 2.0 - it's a huge, huge step up from the previous version, practically every aspect has been reworked and redesigned. The initial vers

Seriously, take a look a 2.0 - it's a huge, huge step up from the previous version, practically every aspect has been reworked and redesigned. The initial version made some design compromises in order to support the Browseable API, and didn't take full advantage of Django's generic CBV's. (Since it was released when Django was still at 1.2) REST framework 2 fixes all that and much, much more. I'd throughly recommend spending a while walking through the tutorial and taking a browse around the docs - I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.