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Flask Framework Cookbook

You're reading from   Flask Framework Cookbook Over 80 proven recipes and techniques for Python web development with Flask

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789951295
Length 302 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Shalabh Aggarwal Shalabh Aggarwal
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Flask Configurations 2. Templating with Jinja2 FREE CHAPTER 3. Data Modeling in Flask 4. Working with Views 5. Webforms with WTForms 6. Authenticating in Flask 7. RESTful API Building 8. Admin Interface for Flask Apps 9. Internationalization and Localization 10. Debugging, Error Handling, and Testing 11. Deployment and Post-Deployment 12. Microservices and Containers 13. Other Tips and Tricks 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a class-based REST interface

We saw how class-based views work in Flask using the concept of pluggable views in the Writing class-based views recipe in Chapter 4, Working with Views. In this recipe, we will now see how we can use the same to create views, which will provide a REST interface to our application.

Getting ready

Let's take a simple view that will handle the REST-style calls to our Product model.

How to do it...

We simply have to modify our views for product handling to extend the MethodView class in views.py:

import json
from flask.views import...
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