Eve REST Framework: Eve 0.6 Released

I'm very excited to announce today's release of Eve 0.6. Lots new features and fixes along with a couple breaking changes. Speaking of new features and improvements, some highlights include:

• Support for multiple databases. Each API endpoint can optionally serve from a different MongoDB instance. See the new mongo_prefix setting.

• Authentication-driven database access, also known as user-reserved databases.

• Index maintenance. On MongoDB, indexes can be created/updated at application startup. See the new mongo_indexes keyword.

• Upserts on PUT. Allows document creation on PUT if the document does not exists. Enabled by default, can be switched off. See the new UPSERT_ON_PUT setting.

• Soft Deletes, you asked for it.

• JSONP support. CORS gets support for X-ALLOW-CREDENTIALS too.

• Serving media files at dedicated endpoint as an alternative to returning them as Base64 strings.

• Enhanced Logging.

• A whole set of new, powerful validation rules such as anyof, allof, noneof, oneof, coerce.

• Support for dot notation in POST, PATCH and PUT methods. Be aware that, for PATCH and PUT, if dot notation is used even on just one field, the whole sub-document will be replaced. So if this document is stored:

  {"name": "john", "location": {"city": "New York", "address": "address"}}

  A PATCH like this:

  {"location.city": "Boston"}

  (which is exactly equivalent to:)

  {"location": {"city": "a nested city"}}

  Will update the document to:

  {"name": "john", "location": {"city": "Boston"}}

Again these are just some highlights but there is a lot more to discover. How about X-Total-Count header for collection GET/HEAD requests, or etag_ignore_field for ignoring certain fields when computing eTags? Make sure you read the whole changelog!