Building RESTful APIs with FastAPI
In this chapter, we delve into the essentials of building RESTful APIs. RESTful APIs are the backbone of web services, enabling applications to communicate and exchange data efficiently.
You will build a RESTful API for a Task Manager application. The application will interact with a CSV file, although the typical approach for such applications would be to use a database such as SQL or NoSQL. This approach is unconventional and not recommended for most scenarios due to scalability and performance limitations. However, in certain contexts, particularly in legacy systems or when dealing with large volumes of structured data files, managing data through CSV can be a practical solution.
Our Task Manager API will allow users to create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) tasks, each represented as a record in a CSV file. This example will provide insights into handling data in non-standard formats within FastAPI.
We will see how to test the API’...
