December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
500 pages
12h 33m
English
Content preview from Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition
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Consuming the API with other programming languages
We've built our first RESTful Web Service that is capable of running as a microservice with Flask and Python. We can consume the API with any modern programming language that can compose and send HTTP requests to the resources and verbs supported by the API and work easily with JSON content.
It is extremely important to make sure that we set the content type for the HTTP request as we did when working with the curl and http command-line utilities. We just need to check which is the most convenient way of doing so in the programming language that we have to use as a client.
The fact that we can easily run a Flask development server and check its console output whenever a new request is processed ...