Building RESTful Python Web Services

Working with resourceful routing on top of Flask pluggable views

Flask-RESTful uses resources built on top of Flask pluggable views as the main building block for a RESTful API. We just need to create a subclass of the flask_restful.Resource class and declare the methods for each supported HTTP verb. A subclass of flask_restful.Resource represents a RESTful resource and therefore, we will have to declare one class to represent the collection of messages and another one to represent the message resource.

First, we will create a Message class that we will use to represent the message resource. Open the previously created api/api.py file and add the following lines. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_chapter_05_01 folder, ...