Cloud Native Python

POST /api/v2/tweets

The POST method adds new tweets by a specified user.

Add the following code to app.py to add the route for the POST method for the tweets resource:

    @app.route('/api/v2/tweets', methods=['POST']) 
    def add_tweets(): 
      user_tweet = {} 
      if not request.json or not 'username' in request.json or not      'body' in request.json: 
        abort(400) 
    user_tweet['username'] = request.json['username'] 
    user_tweet['body'] = request.json['body'] 
    user_tweet['created_at']=strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ", gmtime()) 
    print (user_tweet) 
    return  jsonify({'status': add_tweet(user_tweet)}), 200 

Let's add the definition of add_tweet(user_tweet) to add tweets by a specified user, as follows:

 def add_tweet(new_tweets): conn = sqlite3.connect('mydb.db') print ("Opened ...