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Simple python web app built with flask

To run with flask

Export app name first

$ export FLASK_APP=app.py

To run with Python

python app.py

That's to this code in app.py

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=False,host='0.0.0.0')

Virtual environments

To create a python virtual environment

Get virtualenv package

$ sudo pip install virtualenv

If pip is missing on OSX you get this easy_install

$ easy_install pip

Get python 3

$ brew install python3

Create virtual environment

$ virtualenv venv

Activate virtual environment

$ source venv/bin/activate

Installing new packages

$ pip install [package]

Restore packages

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

API

ping

$ curl .:5000/ping

Read all data sources

$ curl .:5000/dataSources

Read one data source

$ curl .:5000/dataSource/[guid]

Delete data source

$ curl -X 'DELETE' .:5000/dataSource/[guid]

Add data source

$ curl -X 'PUT' .:5000/dataSource -d '{"name":"new", "url":"http://google.com"}' -H 'content-type: application/json'

Get crimes

curl ".:5000/raleigh/crime?query=Drug"

Get all data - from data sources

curl .:5000/allData

todo

• switch to quart https://gitlab.com/pgjones/quart
• migration to quart
• todo: switch to async await ? https://github.com/xzased/pytest-async-mongodb