Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

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The following lines of code are the complete RESTful API for the Product model. These code snippets will go into the views.py file.

Start with imports and add parser:

import jsonfrom flask import abortfrom flask_restful import reqparse 
 
parser = reqparse.RequestParser() 
parser.add_argument('name', type=str) 
parser.add_argument('price', type=float) 
parser.add_argument('category', type=dict) 

In the preceding snippet, we created parser for the arguments that we expected to have in our requests for POST and PUT. The request expects each of the arguments to have a value. If a value is missing for any argument, then None is used as the value.

Write the method as shown in the following code block to fetch products:

class ProductApi(Resource): ...