README.md

Flask-Restless-NG

About

This is a Flask extension that creates URL endpoints that satisfy the requirements of the JSON API specification. It is compatible with models that have been defined using either SQLAlchemy or Flask-SQLAlchemy.

This is a fork of Flask-Restless module originally written by Jeffrey Finkelstein.

Version 1.0.* of Flask-Restless-NG is fully API compatible with Flask-Restless version 1.0.0b1 with the following improvements:

• Supports Flask 2.2+ and SQLAlchemy 1.4.x-2.0.x
• 2-5x faster serialization of JSON responses.
• Miscellaneous bugs fixed

Version 2.0.* adds a few backward incompatible changes with more performance improvements

Introduction

This is Flask-Restless, a Flask extension that creates URL endpoints that satisfy the requirements of the JSON API specification. It is compatible with models that have been defined using either SQLAlchemy or Flask-SQLAlchemy.

This document contains some brief instructions concerning installation of requirements, installation of this extension, configuration and usage of this extension, and building of documentation.

For more information, see the

• documentation,
• Python Package Index listing,
• source code repository.

Installing

This application can be used with any Python version 3.6+

pip install Flask-Restless-NG

Example

import flask
import flask_restless
import flask_sqlalchemy

# Create the Flask application and the Flask-SQLAlchemy object.
app = flask.Flask(__name__)
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'sqlite:////tmp/test.db'
db = flask_sqlalchemy.SQLAlchemy(app)


class Person(db.Model):
    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
    name = db.Column(db.Unicode)
    birth_date = db.Column(db.Date)


class Article(db.Model):
    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
    title = db.Column(db.Unicode)
    published_at = db.Column(db.DateTime)
    author_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('person.id'))
    author = db.relationship(Person, backref=db.backref('articles'))


# Create the database tables.
db.create_all()

# Create the Flask-Restless API manager.
manager = flask_restless.APIManager(app, session=db.session)

# Create API endpoints, which will be available at /api/<table_name> by
# default. Allowed HTTP methods can be specified as well.
manager.create_api(Person, methods=['GET', 'POST', 'DELETE'])
manager.create_api(Article, methods=['GET'])

# start the flask loop
app.run()

More information on how to use this extension is available in the documentation.

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Contact

Maksym Revutskyi [email protected]