I am in a process of designing a client for a REST-ful web-service.

What is the best way to go about representing the remote resource locally in my django application?

For example if the API exposes resources such as:

• List of Cars
• Car Detail
• Car Search
• Dealership summary

So far I have thought of two different approaches to take:

1. Try to wrangle the django's models.Model to mimic the native feel of it. So I could try to get some class called Car to have methods like Car.objects.all() and such.
   This kind of breaks down on Car Search resources.

2. Implement a Data Access Layer class, with custom methods like:

   • Car.get_all()
   • Car.get(id)
   • CarSearch.search("blah")

   So I will be creating some custom looking classes.

Has anyone encoutered a similar problem? Perhaps working with some external API's (i.e. twitter?)

Any advice is welcome.

PS: Please let me know if some part of question is confusing, as I had trouble putting it in precise terms.