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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

Test your knowledge


Let's see whether you can answer the following questions correctly:

  1. In Pyramid, view callables are which of the following?
    1. Python objects such as functions, classes, or instances that implement a __call__ method
    2. Classes that inherit from the pyramid.views.Callable superclass
    3. Instances of the pyramid.views.Callableclass

 

 

  1. The request argument that any view callable receives represents an HTTP request, and is an instance of which of the following classes?
    1. pyramid.web.Request
    2. pyramid.request.Request
    3. pyramid.callable.Request
  1. Which of the following attributes allows us to specify the status code for the response in a pyramid.response.Response instance?
    1. status
    2. http_status_code
    3. status_code
  1. Which of the following classes, declared in the pyramid.httpexceptions module, represent an HTTP 201 Created status code for a response?
    1. HTTP_201_Created
    2. HTTP_Created
    3. HTTPCreated
  2. Which of the following attributes allows us to specify the response body for a JSON response in a pyramid.response.Response...