Python and REST APIs

Saturday. May 30, 2020 - 1 min

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There are several Web services available on the internet. Many web services, like Twilio and Facebook, make their data accessible to third-party applications through an application programming interface (API). One of the most popular ways to build APIs is the REST(REpresentational Stateless Transfer) architecture style.

This post will be a good primer for a python programmer looking to integrate any web-service APIs.

In this post, I shall show a working source code and a docker container image to get started quickly.

Use below two commands to see the example in action.

make build-container 
make test-container

Purpose

Provide a sample or starter example code for RESTful Web Services in python.

Installation

Please refer to Makefile and Dockerfile for install and build instructions.

Resource

Flask Server Flask is a widely used micro web framework for creating APIs in Python.

Restful Methods

POST

 @app.route('/', methods=['POST'])
 def create_record():

GET

 @app.route('/', methods=['GET'])
 def query_records():

PUT

 @app.route('/', methods=['PUT'])
 def update_record():

DELETE

 @app.route('/', methods=['DELETE'])
 def delte_record():

Testing

Run Server
```
  make build
```
Run Client
```
  make test-container
```

Next Steps

Follow the below links for the source code and Dockerfile

I hope that these references will make getting started extremely easy.

Enjoy!

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Satya Dillikar

Hands-on Software Architect with extensive experience developing and delivering distributed enterprise-class mission-critical software applications.

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