Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

Configuring resource routing and endpoints

We must make the necessary resource routing configurations to call the appropriate methods and pass them all the necessary arguments by defining URL rules. The following lines create the main entry point for the application, initialize it with a Flask application, and configure the resource routing for the service. Open the previously created service/service.py file and add the following lines. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_2_01_01 folder, in the Flask01/service/service.py file:

app = Flask(__name__) service = Api(app) service.add_resource(NotificationList, '/service/notifications/') service.add_resource(Notification, '/service/notifications/<int:id>', endpoint='notification_endpoint') ...