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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 instance

• Adding custom or calculated values to the serialized response

• Modifying incoming POST values 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/.