There really isn't a lot of code, which is the beauty of Flask-RESTful. The code begins with importing of flask and flask_restful.
from flask import Flaskfrom flask_restful import Resource, Api
These are followed with code to set up the initial configuration of Flask-RESTful:
app = Flask(__name__)api = Api(app)
Next comes a definition of a class which represents the implementation of our API:
class JobListing(Resource): def get(self, job_listing_id): print("Request for job listing with id: " + job_listing_id) return {'YouRequestedJobWithId': job_listing_id}
What we will have Flask-RESTful do is map HTTP requests to methods in this class. Specifically, by convention GET requests will be mapped to member functions named get
