Building REST APIs with Flask: Create Python Web Services with MySQL

© Kunal Relan 2019

K. RelanBuilding REST APIs with Flaskhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5022-8_3

3. CRUD Application with Flask (Part 1)

Kunal Relan¹ 

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New Delhi, Delhi, India

 

In the last chapter, we discussed about databases and implemented NoSQL- and SQL-based examples. In this chapter we’ll be creating a RESTful Flask application from scratch. Here we’ll maintain a database of Author objects alongside the books they have written. This application will have a user authentication mechanism to only allow logged-in users to execute certain functions. We’ll now create the following API endpoints for our REST applications:

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   GET /authors: This gets list of authors alongside their books.

    
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   GET /authors/<id>: This gets author with the specified ID ...