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For some of our GET, PUT, and DELETE requests, our API will need the ID of the post that is to be modified.
The data to be sent to the client must be a representation of the Post objects in JSON, so how will our Post objects be translated? Flask Restful provides a way of translating any object into JSON through the fields object and the marshal_with function decorator.
The output format is defined by creating a dictionary of field objects that represent basic types. The key of the field defines what attribute the field will try to translate. By passing the dictionary to the marshal_with decorator, any object that the get method attempts to return will be first translated using the dictionary...
