Flask Framework Cookbook

Creating a SQLAlchemy-independent REST API

In the previous recipe, Creating an extension-based REST interface, we saw how to create a REST API interface using an extension that was dependent on SQLAlchemy. Now, we will use an extension called Flask-Restful, which is written over Flask pluggable views and is independent of ORM.

Getting ready

First, we will start with the installation of the extension:

$ pip install Flask-Restful

We will modify the catalog application from the previous recipe to add a REST interface using this extension.

How to do it…

As always, we will start with changes to our application's configuration, which will look something like the following lines of code:

from flask.ext.restful import Api

api = Api(app)

Here, app is our Flask ...