Building RESTful Python Web Services

Summary

In this chapter, we designed a RESTful API to interact with a simple dictionary that acted as a data repository and perform CRUD operations with messages. We defined the requirements for our API and we understood the tasks performed by each HTTP method. We set up a virtual environment with Flask and Flask-RESTful.

We created a model to represent and persist messages. We learned to configure serialization of messages into JSON representations with the features included in Flask-RESTful. We wrote classes that represent resources and process the different HTTP requests and we configured the URL patterns to route URLs to classes.

Finally, we started Flask development server and we used command-line tools to compose and send HTTP requests to ...