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Python API Development Fundamentals

You're reading from   Python API Development Fundamentals Develop a full-stack web application with Python and Flask

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
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ISBN-13 9781838983994
Length 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Your First Step FREE CHAPTER 2. Starting to Build Our Project 3. Manipulating a Database with SQLAlchemy 4. Authentication Services and Security with JWT 5. Object Serialization with marshmallow 6. Email Confirmation 7. Working with Images 8. Pagination, Searching, and Ordering 9. Building More Features 10. Deployment Appendix

ORM

Object Relational Mapping (ORM) is a programming technique that allows the developer to map objects in the programming language to the data model in a database. There is no longer any need to use SQL to interact with a database. The benefit of this is that developers can code in their own programming language and it will work on different types of databases.

The mapping works along the following lines:

  • Class in Python = the table schema in the database
  • Attributes in a class = fields in the table schema
  • Objects = rows of data in the table

SQLAlchemy is the most popular ORM in the Python community. Next, let's delves further by attempting to create a database.

Exercise 18: Setting Up a Smilecook Database

Most applications nowadays require a database to store and manage data. Our application, Smilecook, is no exception. It is a recipe-sharing platform and is open to the public. Obviously, it will have to store the user data and recipe data. In...

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