Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

Summary

In this chapter, we designed a RESTful API to interact with a simple dictionary that acted as a data repository and performed CRUD operations with notifications, to be used as a baseline for a microservice. We defined the requirements for our API and understood the tasks performed by each HTTP method. We set up a virtual environment with Flask and Flask-RESTful. We followed best practices to generate a reproducible virtual environment.

We created a model to represent and persist notifications. We learned how to configure the serialization of notifications into JSON representations with the features included in Flask-RESTful. We wrote classes that represent resources and process the different HTTP requests, and we configured the URL ...