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Helpers, syntaxic sugar and Swagger documentation for Flask-Restful

Project description

Flask-RestPlus provide syntaxic suger, helpers and automatically generated Swagger documentation on top of Flask-Restful.

Compatibility

Flask-RestPlus requires Python 2.7+.

Installation

You can install Flask-Restplus with pip:

$ pip install flask-restplus

or with easy_install:

$ easy_install flask-restplus

Quick start

With Flask-Restplus, you only import the api instance to route and document your endpoints.

from flask import Flask
from flask.ext.restplus import Api, Resource, fields

app = Flask(__name__)
api = Api(app, version='1.0', title='Todo API',
    description='A simple TODO API extracted from the original flask-restful example',
)

ns = api.namespace('todos', description='TODO operations')

TODOS = {
    'todo1': {'task': 'build an API'},
    'todo2': {'task': '?????'},
    'todo3': {'task': 'profit!'},
}

todo = api.model('Todo', {
    'task': fields.String(required=True, description='The task details')
})

listed_todo = api.model('ListedTodo', {
    'id': fields.String(required=True, description='The todo ID'),
    'todo': fields.Nested(todo, description='The Todo')
})


def abort_if_todo_doesnt_exist(todo_id):
    if todo_id not in TODOS:
        api.abort(404, "Todo {} doesn't exist".format(todo_id))

parser = api.parser()
parser.add_argument('task', type=str, required=True, help='The task details', location='form')


@ns.route('/<string:todo_id>')
@api.doc(responses={404: 'Todo not found'}, params={'todo_id': 'The Todo ID'})
class Todo(Resource):
    '''Show a single todo item and lets you delete them'''
    @api.doc(description='todo_id should be in {0}'.format(', '.join(TODOS.keys())))
    @api.marshal_with(todo)
    def get(self, todo_id):
        '''Fetch a given resource'''
        abort_if_todo_doesnt_exist(todo_id)
        return TODOS[todo_id]

    @api.doc(responses={204: 'Todo deleted'})
    def delete(self, todo_id):
        '''Delete a given resource'''
        abort_if_todo_doesnt_exist(todo_id)
        del TODOS[todo_id]
        return '', 204

    @api.doc(parser=parser)
    @api.marshal_with(todo)
    def put(self, todo_id):
        '''Update a given resource'''
        args = parser.parse_args()
        task = {'task': args['task']}
        TODOS[todo_id] = task
        return task


@ns.route('/')
class TodoList(Resource):
    '''Shows a list of all todos, and lets you POST to add new tasks'''
    @api.marshal_list_with(listed_todo)
    def get(self):
        '''List all todos'''
        return [{'id': id, 'todo': todo} for id, todo in TODOS.items()]

    @api.doc(parser=parser)
    @api.marshal_with(todo, code=201)
    def post(self):
        '''Create a todo'''
        args = parser.parse_args()
        todo_id = 'todo%d' % (len(TODOS) + 1)
        TODOS[todo_id] = {'task': args['task']}
        return TODOS[todo_id], 201


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)

Documentation

The documentation is hosted on Read the Docs

Changelog

0.5.0

  • Allow shorter syntax to set operation id: @api.doc('my-operation')

  • Added a shortcut to specify the expected input model: @api.expect(my_fields)

  • Added title attribute to fields

  • Added @api.extend() to extend models

  • Ensure coherence between required and allow_null for NestedField

  • Support list of primitive types and list of models as body

  • Upgraded to latest version of Swagger UI

  • Fixes

0.4.2

  • Rename apidoc blueprint into restplus_doc to avoid collisions

0.4.1

  • Added SWAGGER_VALIDATOR_URL config parameter

  • Added readonly field parameter

  • Upgraded to latest version of Swagger UI

0.4.0

  • Port to Flask-Restful 0.3+

  • Use the default Blueprint/App mecanism

  • Allow to hide some ressources or methods using @api.doc(False) or @api.hide

  • Allow to globally customize the default operationId with the default_id callable parameter

0.3.0

  • Switch to Swagger 2.0 (Major breakage)
    • notes documentation is now description

    • nickname documentation is now id

    • new responses declaration format

  • Added missing body parameter to document body input

  • Last release before Flask-Restful 0.3+ compatibility switch

0.2.4

  • Handle description and required attributes on fields.List

0.2.3

  • Fix custom fields registeration

0.2.2

  • Fix model list in declaration

0.2.1

  • Allow to type custom fields with Api.model

  • Handle custom fields into fieds.List

0.2

  • Upgraded to SwaggerUI 0.2.22

  • Support additional field documentation attributes: required, description, enum, min, max and default

  • Initial support for model in RequestParser

0.1.3

  • Fix Api.marshal() shortcut

0.1.2

  • Added Api.marshal_with() and Api.marshal_list_with() decorators

  • Added Api.marshal() shortcut

0.1.1

  • Use zip_safe=False for proper packaging.

0.1

  • Initial release

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