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Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

By : Gaston C. Hillar
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Book Image

Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

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By: Gaston C. Hillar

Overview of this book

Python is the language of choice for millions of developers worldwide that builds great web services in RESTful architecture. This second edition of Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services will cover the best tools you can use to build engaging web services. This book shows you how to develop RESTful APIs using the most popular Python frameworks and all the necessary stacks with Python, combined with related libraries and tools. You’ll learn to incorporate all new features of Python 3.7, Flask 1.0.2, Django 2.1, Tornado 5.1, and also a new framework, Pyramid. As you advance through the chapters, you will get to grips with each of these frameworks to build various web services, and be shown use cases and best practices covering when to use a particular framework. You’ll then successfully develop RESTful APIs with all frameworks and understand how each framework processes HTTP requests and routes URLs. You’ll also discover best practices for validation, serialization, and deserialization. In the concluding chapters, you will take advantage of specific features available in certain frameworks such as integrated ORMs, built-in authorization and authentication, and work with asynchronous code. At the end of each framework, you will write tests for RESTful APIs and improve code coverage. By the end of the book, you will have gained a deep understanding of the stacks needed to build RESTful web services.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Designing a RESTful API to interact with a simple data source


A surfer who won dozens of international surfing competitions became a surfing coach and wants to build a new tool to help surfers train for the Olympic Games. The development team that works with the surfing coach has years of experience working with the Pyramid web framework, and therefore, he wants us to build a simple RESTful API with Pyramid to work with the data provided by an IoT board connected to multiple sensors in the surfboards.

Each IoT board will provide the following data:

  • Status: Many wearable wireless sensors embedded in each surfer's wetsuit and other sensors included in the surfboard will provide data, and the IoT board will perform a real-time analysis to indicate the action that the surfer is performing
  • Speed: A sensor will measure the surfboard's speed in miles per hour (MPH)
  • Altitude: A sensor will measure the surfboard's altitude in feet
    • Water temperature: A sensor located in one of the surfboard's fins will...