Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

Understanding and configuring view handlers

The following table shows the function that we want to be executed for each combination of HTTP verb and scope, and the route name that identifies each resource:

HTTP verb	Scope	Route name	Function
GET	Collection of metrics	'metrics'	metrics_collection
GET	Metric	'metric'	metric
POST	Collection of metrics	'metrics'	metrics_collection
DELETE	Metric	'metrics'	metric

We must make the necessary resource routing configurations to call the appropriate functions, pass them all the necessary arguments by defining the appropriate routes, and match the appropriate view callable with the route.

First, we will check how the application template we used ...