What Is This?

This is the most simplified form of a RESTful-API using the Flask microframework.

How To Use This

1. Install requirements

   $ pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Run the server.py file.

   $ python server.py

3. Call the endpoints specified for the server.
   • You can use POSTMAN to test the api.
   • Server output:

     127.0.0.1 - [28/Apr/2019 17:31:54] "GET /employee/testGet HTTP/1.1" 200 
     127.0.0.1 - [28/Apr/2019 17:31:54] "POST /employee/testPost HTTP/1.1" 200 
     127.0.0.1 - [28/Apr/2019 17:31:54] "PUT /employee/testPut HTTP/1.1" 200 
     127.0.0.1 - [28/Apr/2019 17:31:54] "PATCH /employee/testPatch HTTP/1.1" 200 
     127.0.0.1 - [28/Apr/2019 17:31:54] "DELETE /employee/testDelete HTTP/1.1" 200 

Endpoint specification

• localhost:5000/employee/<employee_name>
  1. This endpoint support the follwonig Http requests:
     • GET
     • POST
     • PUT
     • PATCH
     • DELETE
  2. This endpoint require a single parameter to be passed <employee_name>.

Note

• Flask uses port number 5000 as the default port.
• Each Http request has its own handler, which must be implemented by the developer inside the server.py file.

Built With

• Python - Python
• Flask - Web development microframework for Python

Versioning

We use Github for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

• Ibrahim Almohaimeed - Github account

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see LICENSE for details.