Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

Configuring output fields

Now, we will create a notification_fields dictionary that we will use to control the data that we want Flask-RESTful to render in our responses when we return NotificationModel instances. Open the service/service.py file created previously and add the following lines to the existing code. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_2_01_01 folder, in the Flask01/service/service.py file:

notification_fields = { 'id': fields.Integer, 'uri': fields.Url('notification_endpoint'), 'message': fields.String, 'ttl': fields.Integer, 'creation_date': fields.DateTime, 'notification_category': fields.String, 'displayed_times': fields.Integer, 'displayed_once': fields.Boolean } notification_manager = NotificationManager() ...