Stub out tastypie resources with static json

stub.py

from django.http import HttpResponse


class Stub(object):
    """
    Mixin. Use:
    class MyResource(Stub, ...)  # (Stub must be the first parent class)

    Now MyResource will do no processing, auth or model-checking.
    It will simply respond with the contents of the json file in the local directory
    that matches the URL. (eg /api/v1/content/ -> api/v1/content.json)

    """
    def dispatch(*args, **kwargs):
        uri_path = args[2].META['PATH_INFO']
        file_path = uri_path[1:-1] + ".json"

        with open(file_path) as json_file:
            return HttpResponse(
                json_file.read(),
                content_type="application/json"
            )

Create a folder hirearchy like:
api/v1/my_endpoint
to hold your static json