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Python Flask REST API Resourceful Blueprints Resources

Posted by Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

No need for jsonify

Hi Kenneth Love, I believe Flask-RESTful will automatically return JSON from a Python dict, so your initial setup of the resources would look like this:

courses.py 
from flask.ext.restful import Resource

import models


class CourseList(Resource):
    def get(self):
        return {'courses': [{'title': 'Python Basics'}]}


class Course(Resource):
    def get(self, id):
        return {'title': 'Python Basics'}

    def put(self, id):
        return {'title': 'Python Basics'}

    def delete(self, id):
        return {'title': 'Python Basics'}

and

reviews.py 
from flask.ext.restful import Resource

import models


class ReviewList(Resource):
    def get(self):
        return {'reviews': [{'course': 1, 'rating': 5}]}


class Review(Resource):
    def get(self, id):
        return {'course': 1, 'rating': 5}

    def put(self, id):
        return {'course': 1, 'rating': 5}

    def delete(self, id):
        return {'course': 1, 'rating': 5}

Hopefully you don't just point this out in the following video... :)

2 Answers

Sami Mäntysaari
Sami Mäntysaari
55 Points
Sami Mäntysaari
Sami Mäntysaari
55 Points

Exactly what I was wondering too. :)

Also why is this course using flask_restful when there's a better one called flask_restplus?