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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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Jack Chan Jack Chan
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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

UserSchema Design

Now we have learned why we need to use Schema and how we can define a schema, we will start to work on that in our Smilecook application. In the case of user registration, we will expect the user to fill in their information on a web form, and then send the details in JSON format to the server. Our Smilecook application will then deserialize it to be a User object, which can be worked on in our application.

We will, therefore, need to define a UserSchema class to specify the expected attributes in the JSON request coming from the frontend. We will need the following fields:

  • id: Use fields.Int() to represent an integer. In addition, dump_only=True means that this property is only available for serialization, not deserialization. This is because id is autogenerated, not passed in by the user.
  • username: Use fields.String() to represent a string and apply required=True to indicate that this property is mandatory. When the client sends JSON data without...
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