dmr-from-drf

To migrate Django REST Framework APIs to django-modern-rest, inventory existing endpoints and draft a per-endpoint migration plan that preserves routes, request/response contracts, authentication, permissions, throttling, and pagination while replacing DRF serializers with typed DTOs.

Yes, you can incrementally migrate DRF ViewSets and GenericAPIViews to DMR controllers and routers. The migration supports per-endpoint parity checks, allowing you to replace APIViews in stages while maintaining project-native tests and avoiding DRF internals in migrated slices.

Migrating from DRF to DMR does not require changing existing API routes and pagination. The process enforces strict per-endpoint parity, documenting observable behavior and using reference maps to ensure authentication, permissions, throttling, and pagination remain identical.

The best way to replace DRF serializers and routers with typed DTOs is to follow a strict migration policy that maps DRF routers to DMR routers and validates per-endpoint parity, ensuring the new typed DTOs match the original request and response contracts.

A key limitation when migrating DRF endpoints to DMR controllers is the requirement for strict documentation and per-endpoint parity checks. Migrated slices must avoid DRF internals entirely, meaning you cannot mix DRF serializers and DMR typed DTOs within the same migrated endpoint.

You need a per-endpoint migration plan before replacing Django REST Framework with DMR to guarantee observable behavior remains identical. It establishes reference maps for routes, methods, and permissions, preventing contract drift and ensuring test coverage validates the new DMR controllers.