In Chapter 3, you created your database and the Python code to access the database. In this chapter, you will build on this foundation code to create a working API. Table 4-1 lists the endpoints that you will create to fulfill these user stories.
Table 4-1. Endpoints for the SWC Fantasy Football API
Endpoint description
HTTP verb
URL
API health check
GET
/
Read player list
GET
/v0/players/
Read individual player
GET
/v0/players/{player_id}/
Read performance list
GET
/v0/performances/
Read league list
GET
/v0/leagues/
Read individual league
GET
/v0/leagues/{league_id}/
Read team list
GET
/v0/teams/
Read counts
GET
/v0/counts/
You are using version 0 for your API. This will notify API consumers that the product is changing rapidly and they should be aware of potential breaking changes—changes that cause functionality to stop working and may require consumers to make changes in their program code.
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Figure 4-1 shows the same API components you saw previously, with one addition: the Uvicorn web server. Uvicorn will execute your API code and interact with API requests.
Figure 4-1. API components with Uvicorn
In Chapter 3, you completed two very important parts of the API: the SQLite database and the SQLAlchemy classes that enable Python to interact with the data. In this chapter, you will ...
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