Python API Development Fundamentals

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Preface

About

About the Book

1. Your First Step

Learning Objectives

Introduction

Understanding API

RESTful API

HTTP Protocol

HTTP Methods and CRUD

The JSON Format

HTTP Status Codes

Open API

The Flask Web Framework

Building a Simple Recipe Management Application

Using curl or httpie to Test All the Endpoints

Postman

Summary

2. Starting to Build Our Project

Learning Objectives

Introduction

What is Flask-RESTful?

Virtual Environment

Creating a Recipe Model

Configuring Endpoints

Making HTTP Requests to the Flask API using curl and httpie

Summary

3. Manipulating a Database with SQLAlchemy

Learning Objectives

Introduction

Databases

SQL

ORM

Defining Our Models

Password Hashing

Summary

4. Authentication Services and Security with JWT

Learning Objectives

Introduction

JWT

Flask-JWT-Extended

Designing the Methods in the Recipe Model

Refresh Tokens

The User Logout Mechanism

Summary

5. Object Serialization with marshmallow

Learning Objectives

Introduction

Serialization versus Deserialization

marshmallow

A Simple Schema

UserSchema Design

RecipeSchema Design

The PATCH Method

Summary

6. Email Confirmation

Learning Objectives

Introduction

Mailgun

User Account Activation Workflow

HTML Format Email

Summary

7. Working with Images

Learning Objectives

Introduction

Building the User Avatar Function

Flask-Uploads

Image Resizing and Compression

Introduction to Pillow

Summary

8. Pagination Searching and Ordering

Learning Objectives

Introduction

Pagination

Paginated APIs

Recipe Searching

Sorting and Ordering

Summary

9. Building More Features

Learning Objectives

Introduction

Caching

Flask-Caching

API Rate Limiting

Flask-Limiter

Summary

10. Deployment

Learning Objectives

Introduction

Deployment

Comparing SaaS PaaS and IaaS

The Heroku Platform

Configuration Handling in Smilecook

Heroku Application

Heroku Add-Ons

Setting Up Environment Variables for the Heroku App

Setting Up Variables in Postman

Setting up the Front-end Interface to Work with the Smilecook API