Getting and Setting Reflex State Via API Routers

[tlifke]

I'm curious what the intended method for interacting with State from an external process is in Reflex. I can setup an application with something like this:

import reflex as rx

app = rx.App()

class ExampleState(rx.State):
    example_integer:int = 1000

    async def set_example_integer(self, new_integer:int) ->None:
        self.example_integer = new_integer

    async def get_example_integer(self) ->int:
        return self.example_integer

async def set_example_integer(new_integer:int):
    # How do we set the ExampleState's example_integer?
    # ExampleState.example_integer = new_integer 
    # ExampleState.set_example_integer(new_integer) 

async def get_example_integer():
    # How do we get the ExampleState's example_integer?
    # return ExampleState.example_integer 
    # return  ExampleState.get_example_integer() 

app.api.add_api_route("/example_integer", set_example_integer,methods=['POST'])
app.api.add_api_route("/example_integer", get_example_integer,methods=['GET'])

In this application, we have a variable 'example_integer' within ExampleState that we want to be able to get and set externally. However, the two patterns I've tried (commented out above) yield unexpected results. The GET returns an rx.Var object while the SET seems to fail silently -- the value doesn't change in the main application and when I print the returned and changed value, it also gives an rx.Var object. The rx.Var object doesn't seem to have an obvious way to see the actual value of the Var.

Is there a better way within Reflex to enable the modification and retrieval of State from outside the application, ideally by adding API Routers? Thanks in advance!

There's some overlap with this discussion but unfortunately it didn't solve my question.