v2.0.0 (2025-11-10)

[alorence]

Improvements

• The new API, heavily inspired from tools like FastAPI or django-ninja, encapsulate the procedures registration in a
  dedicated RpcServer instance. This removes the need to lookup modules based on settings.MODERNRPC_METHODS_MODULES
  value, so modernrpc does not need to be added to settings.INSTALLED_APPS anymore.
• RpcNamespace were added to provide a better organization of procedures. Each one can be registered in a
  previously defined RpcServer.
• It is now possible to register async procedures. Both sync (legacy) and async procedures are served by the default
  view (synchronous)
• For improved performances with async procedures, an async view has been added and can be used as a replacement to
  expose procedures. The async_view can serve both sync and async procedures.
• Error handling has been improved, allowing executing a callback function when an exception is caught and before an
  RPC error response is built.
• The authentication process has been improved. Multiple callbacks can be configured at server-level, namespace-level
  or directly on a specific remote procedure.
• It is now possible to configure different backends to deserialize XML-RPC and JSON-RPC requests and to serialize
  XML-RPC and JSON-RPC responses. Alternative backends may provide more features, configuration options, specific types
  support or better performances.

Breaking Changes

• Complete architecture redesign: The library now uses a server-based approach instead of entry points
• Removed the RPCEntryPoint class-based view in favor of the new function based views provided by RpcServer class
• Removed automatic procedure registration via MODERNRPC_METHODS_MODULES setting
• Removed HTML documentation generation through entry points
• Changed the way procedures access request context, now using the context_target parameter
• Some settings were removed:
  • MODERNRPC_METHODS_MODULES
  • MODERNRPC_LOG_EXCEPTIONS
  • MODERNRPC_DEFAULT_ENTRYPOINT_NAME
  • MODERNRPC_JSON_DECODER
  • MODERNRPC_JSON_ENCODER
  • MODERNRPC_XMLRPC_USE_BUILTIN_TYPES
  • MODERNRPC_XMLRPC_ALLOW_NONE
  • MODERNRPC_XMLRPC_DEFAULT_ENCODING

Misc

• Added support for Django 5.2 and 6.0
• Added support for Python 3.14
• Dropped support of Django < 3.2
• Dropped support of Python 3.7

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This discussion was created from the release v2.0.0 (2025-11-10).