Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

How it works...

We will see how this REST interface works on the Python shell using the requests library.

requests is a very popular Python library that makes the rendering of HTTP requests very easy. It can simply be installed by running the following command: pip3 install requests

The command will show following information:

   >>> import requests
    >>> res = requests.get('http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/product')
    >>> res.json()
    'This is a GET response'
    >>> res = requests.post('http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/product')
    'This is a POST response'
    >>> res = requests.put('http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/product/1')
    'This is a PUT response'
    >>> res = requests.delete('http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/product/1')
    'This is a DELETE response' 

In the preceding snippet, we ...