Again, we can use a URL variable to collect a string, and use the string supplied for a query filter. If Wash is used as the URL variable county_name, the query will find all counties with names that start with Wash:
@app.route('/nba/api/v0.1/county/<county_name>', methods=['GET'])def get_county_name(county_name): counties = session.query(County).filter(County.name.like(county_name+"%")).all() data = [{"type": "Feature", "properties":{"name":county.name, "state":county.state.name}, "geometry":{"type":"MultiPolygon", "coordinates":[shapely.geometry.geo.mapping(to_shape(county.geom))["coordinates"]]}, } for county in counties] return jsonify({"type": "FeatureCollection","features":data})
The filter method can be ...