Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

Creating the model

Now, we will create a simple NotificationModel class that we will use to represent notifications. Remember that we won't be persisting the model in any database or file, and therefore, in this case, our class will just provide the required attributes and no mapping information. Create a new models.py file in the service folder. The following lines show the code that creates a NotificationModel class in the service/models.py file. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_2_01_01 folder, in the Flask01/service/models.py file:

class NotificationModel: def __init__(self, message, ttl, creation_date, notification_category): # We will automatically generate the new id self.id = 0 self.message = message self.ttl ...