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Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services

You're reading from   Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services Develop RESTful web services or APIs with modern Python 3.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789532227
Length 500 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Developing RESTful APIs and Microservices with Flask 1.0.2 2. Working with Models, SQLAlchemy, and Hyperlinked APIs in Flask FREE CHAPTER 3. Improving Our API and Adding Authentication to it with Flask 4. Testing and Deploying an API in a Microservice with Flask 5. Developing RESTful APIs with Django 2.1 6. Working with Class-Based Views and Hyperlinked APIs in Django 2.1 7. Improving Our API and Adding Authentication to it with Django 8. Throttling, Filtering, Testing, and Deploying an API with Django 2.1 9. Developing RESTful APIs with Pyramid 1.10 10. Developing RESTful APIs with Tornado 5.1.1 11. Working with Asynchronous Code, Testing, and Deploying an API with Tornado 12. Assessment 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Designing a RESTful API to interact with a PostgreSQL 10.5 database

So far, our RESTful API has performed CRUD operations on a simple in-memory dictionary that acted as a data repository. The dictionary is never persisted and, therefore, the data is lost whenever we restart our Flask development server.

Now, we want to create a more complex RESTful API with Flask RESTful to interact with a database model that allows us to work with notifications that are grouped into notification categories. In our previous RESTful API, we used a string attribute to specify the notification category for a notification. In this case, we want to be able to easily retrieve all the notifications that belong to a specific notification category and, therefore, we will have a relationship between a notification and a notification category.

We must be able to perform CRUD operations on different related...

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