demo-flask-api

This repository serves only to experiment Flask to build a REST API

Running

Inside the root of the repository:

> set FLASK_APP=all_apis.py
> flask run

This will run locally in this endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:5000

Testing

I tested GETs in a browser. To test POST I used POSTMAN

GET /employees

• Response data (with initial data):

{
  "employees": {
    "employee": [
      {
        "lastName": "Santos",
        "id": "1",
        "firstName": "Filipa"
      },
      {
        "lastName": "Sousa",
        "id": "2",
        "firstName": "Maria"
      },
      {
        "lastName": "Oliveira",
        "id": "3",
        "firstName": "Teresa"
      }
    ]
  }
}

POST /employee

• Request data (with new employee):

{
  "lastName": "Bonita",
  "id": "4",
  "firstName": "Isla"
}

• Response data (with all employees):

{
  "employees": {
    "employee": [
      {
        "firstName": "Filipa",
        "id": "1",
        "lastName": "Santos"
      },
      {
        "firstName": "Maria",
        "id": "2",
        "lastName": "Sousa"
      },
      {
        "firstName": "Teresa",
        "id": "3",
        "lastName": "Oliveira"
      },
      {
        "firstName": "Isla",
        "id": "4",
        "lastName": "Bonita"
      }
    ]
  }
}

• Terminal Output:

demo-flask-api>flask run
 * Serving Flask app "all_apis"
 * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Mar/2018 22:44:19] "GET /employees HTTP/1.1" 200 -
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Mar/2018 22:44:24] "POST /employee HTTP/1.1" 200 -
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Mar/2018 22:44:31] "GET /employees HTTP/1.1" 200 -
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Mar/2018 22:45:00] "POST /employee HTTP/1.1" 200 -
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Mar/2018 22:45:06] "GET /employees HTTP/1.1" 200 -