Daniel Arbuckle's Mastering Python

Test running the microservice

To do a test run of our microservice, we need to start up Flask (using the following command) and tell it to serve our microservice:

For Unix/Linux and macOS, run the following command:

export FLASK_APP=demo_flaskpython3 -m flask run

For Windows, run the following command:

set FLASK_APP=demo_flaskpython3 -m flask run

The demo_flask package also contains a module called test.py that we can use as a client that connects to our microservice and put it through its paces. It will add, delete, list, and modify a couple of database entries and also try out a bad post request to show that the error handling is working.

There's one more part of the Flask demo microservice that we haven't talked about and won't in ...