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Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI

You're reading from   Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI A fast-paced guide to building high-performance, robust web APIs with very little boilerplate code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801076630
Length 216 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abdulazeez Abdulazeez
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: An Introduction to FastAPI
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with FastAPI FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Routing in FastAPI 4. Chapter 3: Response Models and Error Handling 5. Chapter 4: Templating in FastAPI 6. Part 2: Building and Securing FastAPI Applications
7. Chapter 5: Structuring FastAPI Applications 8. Chapter 6: Connecting to a Database 9. Chapter 7: Securing FastAPI Applications 10. Part 3: Testing And Deploying FastAPI Applications
11. Chapter 8: Testing FastAPI Applications 12. Chapter 9: Deploying FastAPI Applications 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building a simple CRUD app

We have built routes for creating and retrieving todos. Let’s build the routes for updating and deleting the added todo. Let’s start by creating a model for the request body for the UPDATE route in model.py:

class TodoItem(BaseModel):
   item: str
   class Config:
       schema_extra = {
           "example": {
               "item": "Read the next chapter of the book"
           }
       }

Next, let’s write the route for updating a todo in todo.py:

from fastapi import APIRouter, Path
from model import Todo, TodoItem
todo_router = APIRouter()
todo_list = []
@todo_router.post("/todo")
async def add_todo(todo...
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