Flask-Restless supports a number of configuration options that, in the interests of space, could not be covered in this chapter. The search filters are a very powerful tool, and we only scratched the surface of what is possible. Additionally, the pre and postprocessing hooks can be used to implement a number of interesting features such as the following:
Authentication, which can be implemented in the preprocessor
Default filters for
GET_MANY, which could be used to restrict the list of comments to those that are public, for instanceAdding custom or calculated values to the serialized response
Modifying incoming
POSTvalues to set default values on the model instance
If REST API is a key component in your application, I strongly suggest spending time reading the Flask-Restless documentation. The documentation can be found online at https://flask-restless.readthedocs.org/en/latest/.