Eve: Building RESTful APIs with MongoDB and Flask Transcripts
Chapter: Fine-tuning your REST service
Lecture: Still a Flask app
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We saw how many features the Eve framework brings to the table
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and one very important feature you should never forget about is
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that Eve still is a 100% Flask application.
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Let me illustrate, if you remember when we were doing
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the Flask hello world app a few lectures ago,
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all we had to do was define a function
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return something, a string, for example,
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and then decorate our function with a route decorator,
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and we need to pass the URL.
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So pure Flask RestFul dispatching at work here.
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But we're using an app instance of Eve class not Flask class
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but because Eve is actually a subclass of Flask
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this is going to work, let's try and save,
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server restarts, we go to Postman and we hit the local host 5000 hello endpoint.
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Boom, hello world, and we're still getting all the features coming from Eve,
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right now we don't have authentication going here
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but we only need to edit and here we go,
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and by the way, we're using Postman here
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but we could as well go back to our browser access
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our endpoint, as we used to do with the basic Flask application.
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Of course, if we go and hit the people endpoint from the browser,
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it works, but we need to authenticate,
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I don't remember the password, it was a secret, right,
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yes, here it is, well, hardly readable,
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but rest assured, this is the same output we're getting from Postman.
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So full Flask power plus Eve features at your fingertips.
