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Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services

You're reading from   Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services Develop RESTful web services or APIs with modern Python 3.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789532227
Length 500 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Developing RESTful APIs and Microservices with Flask 1.0.2 FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Models, SQLAlchemy, and Hyperlinked APIs in Flask 3. Improving Our API and Adding Authentication to it with Flask 4. Testing and Deploying an API in a Microservice with Flask 5. Developing RESTful APIs with Django 2.1 6. Working with Class-Based Views and Hyperlinked APIs in Django 2.1 7. Improving Our API and Adding Authentication to it with Django 8. Throttling, Filtering, Testing, and Deploying an API with Django 2.1 9. Developing RESTful APIs with Pyramid 1.10 10. Developing RESTful APIs with Tornado 5.1.1 11. Working with Asynchronous Code, Testing, and Deploying an API with Tornado 12. Assessment 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using a dictionary as a repository

Now, we will create a SurfboardMetricManager class that we will use to persist the SurfboardMetricModel instances in an in-memory dictionary. Our API methods will call methods for the SurfboardMetricManager class to retrieve, insert, and delete SurfboardMetricModel instances.

Stay in the metrics.py file in the metrics/metrics/models subfolder. Add the following lines to declare the SurfboardMetricManager class. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_2_09_01 folder, in the Pyramid01/metrics/metrics/models/metrics.py file:

class SurfboardMetricManager(): 
    last_id = 0 
    def __init__(self): 
        self.metrics = {} 
 
    def insert_metric(self, metric): 
        self.__class__.last_id += 1 
        metric.id = self.__class__.last_id 
        self.metrics[self.__class__.last_id] = metric 
 
    def get_metric(self...
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