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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

Understanding and configuring view handlers


The following table shows the function that we want to be executed for each combination of HTTP verb and scope, and the route name that identifies each resource:

HTTP verb

Scope

Route name

Function

GET

Collection of metrics

'metrics'

metrics_collection

GET

Metric

'metric'

metric

POST

Collection of metrics

'metrics'

metrics_collection

DELETE

Metric

'metrics'

metric

 

 

 

 

We must make the necessary resource routing configurations to call the appropriate functions, pass them all the necessary arguments by defining the appropriate routes, and match the appropriate view callable with the route.

First, we will check how the application template we used configures and returns a Pyramid WSGI application that will run our RESTful API. The following lines show the code for the __init__.py file within the metrics/metrics folder:

from pyramid.config import Configurator 
 
 
def main(global_config, **settings): 
    """ This function returns a Pyramid WSGI application. 
    """ 
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