Guide Overview

The Guide covers each feature in depth.

Feature	Description	Link
Caching	Declarative cache-key construction, model-signal-driven invalidation, response-header reporting, and a pluggable dispatcher layer for celery, django-rq, django-q, dramatiq, asyncio, threadpool, or inline execution.	Caching guide
Filtering	Declarative FilterSet classes with type annotations, automatic lookup and negation variants, custom methods, ordering, preprocessors and postprocessors, and a DRF backend that emits OpenAPI parameters for every field.	Filtering guide
Serializers	Type-driven Serializer, ModelSerializer, and HyperlinkedModelSerializer subclasses with an async surface (ais_valid, asave, acreate, aupdate) and an InlineSerializer factory.	Serializers guide
Authentication	Async JWT authentication with PyJWT, built-in obtain, refresh, and blacklist views, swappable blacklist backends, and async wrappers for the standard DRF authenticators plus an optional adapter for djangorestframework-simplejwt.	Authentication guide
Permissions	Async-aware permission classes that compose through DRF's &, |, and ~ operators, with async-native operator classes that resolve combinator branches through the async hook .	Permissions guide
Views	Full async view stack: AsyncAPIView, eight generic views, five model mixins, four viewsets, plus ActionConfig for per-action overrides and PostFetch for after-pagination joins.	Views guide
Pagination	Async-aware page number, limit-offset, cursor, and fast page number paginators that drive apaginate_queryset() on async views and viewsets.	Pagination guide
Throttling	Async-aware throttle classes that use Django's async cache for non-blocking rate-limit checks.	Throttling guide
Responses	Streaming JSON, NDJSON, and Server-Sent Events responses for endpoints that produce large or open-ended payloads.	Responses guide
Exception handler	A drop-in DRF exception handler that renders every error as a uniform envelope with a stable error code, message, and details payload.	Exception handler guide
Spectacular	RestflowAutoSchema, a drop-in replacement for drf-spectacular's default schema generator that understands action configs, the request and response serializer split, and async pagination.	Spectacular guide
Testing	AsyncAPIClient, AsyncAPIRequestFactory, four AsyncAPI*TestCase bases, and force_authenticate for testing async views.	Testing guide