Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

Working with resourceful routing on top of Flask pluggable views

Flask-RESTful uses resources built on top of Flask pluggable views as the main building block for a RESTful API. We just need to create a subclass of the flask_restful.Resource class and declare the methods for each supported HTTP verb.

A subclass of flask_restful.Resource represents a RESTful resource and, therefore, we will have to declare one class to represent the collection of notifications and another one to represent the notification resource.

First, we will create a Notification class that we will use to represent the notification resource. Open the service/service.py file created previously and add the following lines. The code file for the sample is included in the ...