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Learning Flask Framework

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Learning Flask Framework

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Flask Framework
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing Flask-Restless


With our model in place, we are now ready to install Flask-Restless, a third-party Flask extension that makes it simple to build RESTful APIs for your SQLAlchemy models. After ensuring that you have activated the blog app's virtual environment, install Flask-Restless using pip:

(blog) $ pip install Flask-Restless

You can verify if the extension is installed by opening up the interactive interpreter and getting the version that is installed. Don't forget, your exact version number may differ.

(blog) $ ./manage.py shell

In [1]: import flask_restless

In [2]: flask_restless.__version__
Out[2]: '0.13.0'

Now that we have Flask-Restless installed, let's configure it to work with our application.

Setting up Flask-Restless

Like other Flask extensions, we will begin in the app.py module by configuring an object that will manage our new API. In Flask-Restless, this object is called an APIManager and it will allow us to create RESTful endpoints for our SQLAlchemy models. Add...