Building RESTful Python Web Services

Coding a generic pagination class

Our database has a few rows for each of the tables that persist the models we have defined. However, after we start working with our API in a real-life production environment, we will have hundreds of messages, and therefore, we will have to deal with large result sets. Thus, we will create a generic pagination class and we will use it to easily specify how we want large results sets to be split into individual pages of data.

First, we will compose and send HTTP requests to create 9 messages that belong to one of the categories we have created: Information. This way, we will have a total of 12 messages persisted in the database. We had 3 messages and we add 9 more.

http POST :5000/api/messages/ message='Initializing ...