Building RESTful Python Web Services

Creating the model

Now, we will create a simple MessageModel class that we will use to represent messages. Remember that we won't be persisting the model in the database, and therefore, in this case, our class will just provide the required attributes and no mapping information. Create a new models.py file in the api folder. The following lines show the code that creates a MessageModel class in the api/models.py file. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_chapter_05_01 folder:

class MessageModel: def __init__(self, message, duration, creation_date, message_category): # We will automatically generate the new id self.id = 0 self.message = message self.duration = duration self.creation_date = creation_date self.message_category ...