Overriding Resource class to use custom data source in tastypie

gistfile1.py

from tastypie.resources import Resource
from tastypie import fields

class dict2obj(object):
    """
    Convert dictionary to object
    @source http://stackoverflow.com/a/1305561/383912
    """
    def __init__(self, d):
        self.__dict__['d'] = d

    def __getattr__(self, key):
        value = self.__dict__['d'][key]
        if type(value) == type({}):
            return dict2obj(value)

        return value

class BlogResource(Resource):
    title = fields.CharField(attribute='title')
    content = fields.CharField(attribute='content')
    author = fields.CharField(attribute='author_name')

    class Meta:
        resource_name = 'blogs'

    def obj_get_list(self, request=None, **kwargs):

        posts = []
        #your actual logic to retrieve contents from external source.

        #example
        posts.append(dict2obj(
            {
                'title': 'Test Blog Title 1',
                'content': 'Blog Content',
                'author_name': 'User 1'
            }
        ))
        posts.append(dict2obj(
            {
                'title': 'Test Blog Title 2',
                'content': 'Blog Content 2',
                'author_name': 'User 2'
            }
        ))

        return posts

To support recent versions of tastypie...

#initialize d with None
def init(self, d=None):
self.dict['d'] = d

#add object_class in Meta description
class Meta:
resource_name = 'blogs'
object_class = 'dict2obj