flask-accept 0.0.7

Adding Support for an Existing Endpoint

Given our example from before, we can add support for a different response to an additonal media type as follows:

from flask import Flask, jsonify
from flask_accept import accept
app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
@accept('text/html')
def hello_world():
    return 'Hello World!'

@hello_world.support('application/json')
def hello_world_json():
    return jsonify(result="Hello World!")

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

Now our hello_world endpoint supports JSON:

$ curl localhost:5000 -I -H "Accept: application/json"
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

Falling Back on a Default Endpoint

If we want to support a specific media type, but have every other request fall back to a default endpoint, we can use accept_fallback as follows:

from flask import Flask, jsonify
from flask_accept import accept, accept_fallback
app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
@accept_fallback
def hello_world():
    return 'Hello World!'

@hello_world.support('application/json')
def hello_world_json():
    return jsonify(result="Hello World!")

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

Our hello_world endpoint still supports JSON, but for any other media type (or if none is specified) it will fall back:

$ curl localhost:5000 -I
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html

$ curl localhost:5000 -I -H "Accept: madeup/mediatype"
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html

Versioning your API

Flask-Accept let you accept any possible media type, including custom vendored media types. This is ideal for versioning an API using Accept headers only:

from flask import Flask, jsonify
from flask_accept import accept
app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
@accept('application/vnd.your_vendor.v1', 'application/vnd.your_vendor.v2')
def hello_world():
    return 'Hello World!'

@hello_world.support('application/vnd.your_vendor.v3')
def hello_world_v2():
    return 'Goodbye cruel world.'

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

$ curl localhost:5000 -H "Accept: application/vnd.your_vendor.v1"
Hello World!

$ curl localhost:5000 -H "Accept: application/vnd.your_vendor.v2"
Hello World!

$ curl localhost:5000 -H "Accept: application/vnd.your_vendor.v3"
Goodbye cruel world.

Works with Flask-RESTful Resources

The same functionality can be applied to APIs built with Flask-RESTful

from flask import Flask, jsonify
from flask_accept import accept
from flask_restful import Resource, Api
app = Flask(__name__)
api = Api(app)


class HelloWorldResource(Resource):
    @accept('application/vnd.your_vendor.v1', 'application/vnd.your_vendor.v2')
    def get():
        return 'Hello World!'

    @get.support('application/vnd.your_vendor.v3')
    def get_v2():
        return 'Goodbye cruel world.'


api.add_resource(HelloWorldResource, '/')

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

$ curl localhost:5000 -H "Accept: application/vnd.your_vendor.v1"
Hello World!

$ curl localhost:5000 -H "Accept: application/vnd.your_vendor.v2"
Hello World!

$ curl localhost:5000 -H "Accept: application/vnd.your_vendor.v3"
Goodbye cruel world.