Python Microservices Development

Response

In the previous examples, we've used the jsonify() function, which creates a Response object from the mapping returned by the view.

The Response object is, technically, a standard WSGI application you could use directly. It's wrapped by Flask, and called with the WSGI's environ, and the start_response function is received from the web server.

When Flask picks a view via its URL mapper, it expects it to return a callable object that can receive the environ and start_response arguments.

This design may seem a little awkward since the WSGI environ is already parsed into a Request object by the time the Response object is called with the WSGI environ again. But, in practice, this is just an implementation detail. When your code needs ...