Great work, Tom! And timely. Django-rest-framework is #1 on my list of the best Django packages out there. I was about to start an API project in Flask, but was thinking that I'd really really miss DRF and its great architecture adn features (powerful out of the box, everything easily overridable, great separation of concerns, and browsable API).
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#12Excellent work! Oh, the times I've wished for something like Django REST Framework in Flask but was too busy and/or lazy to implement it myself. Thank you!
For those unfamiliar with Django REST Framework, please go take a look. One of the few, perhaps the only, web framework to take all (or maybe almost all) of Fielding's ideas behind REST seriously. This is more than just theoretical -- once you've created a client application that takes full advantage of a HATEOAS API, you'll understand that it's much more than an annoying acronym.
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#13Awesome
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#14Why use this and not Flask-RESTful? How is the use case different? http://flask-restful.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
The most obvious feature difference is the browsable API. Flask API also shares the same architecture as the core of Django REST framework, which I think just has a really nice separation of concerns. Also the interface of `request.data` means is easy to transparently support both JSON and form requests, and the nice content negotiation on responses means it's easy to build services that power both an HTML front-end…
We've been considering "porting" our app from Flask-RESTful to Django REST Framework because it is so well architected, tested, and has a large community around it. So I'm overjoyed to hear that you're bringing this awesomeness to the Flask world Tom!
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#15Absolutely amazing stuff been looking for something like django rest framework on Flask.
Any dates for 1.0 release? I'm looking forward to the authentication and such.
What would be great is also some implementation of Sandman's auto inspection of database to create REST api, with support for One to Many, Many to Many relationships.
Great job!
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#16Oh fantastic! I love Django REST but have wanted the speed of something more lightweight for a while.
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#17I spent last 3 months building AngularJS + Flask where the client talks to server only through REST. There were 3 options:
1. Bare Flask 2. Flask RESTful 3. Flask Restless
I've spent quite some time investigating 2nd and 3rd options. Problems with 2nd:
a) Didn't bring much to the table comparing to pure Flask. Extra abstraction and complexity that without much improvements b) Swallowing Flask exceptions c) Risk that the project will be abandoned and poor maintenance (commit frequency)
3rd: Direct mapping to SQL-Alchemy models is too restrict. Hard to change stuff - very opinionated
I end up with pure Flask. It's already good with enough rest framework!. Great balance between power and abstraction.
I'm looking forward to dig into this project. Would be great if it has great integration with flask admin and security. Also support for OAuth flows would be awesome.
I have a few question for the author - of top of my head. How do you handle pagination? one example returns json array, what about JSON vulnerability?
Re: Flask API – Browsable Web APIs for Flask
#18I spent last 3 months building AngularJS + Flask where the client talks to server only through REST. There were 3 options: 1. Bare Flask 2. Flask RESTful 3. Flask Restless I've spent quite some time investigating 2nd and 3rd options. Problems with 2nd: a) Didn't bring much to the table comparing to pure Flask. Extra abstraction and complexity that without much improvements b) Swallowing Flask exceptions c) Risk that…
> I spent last 3 months building AngularJS + Flask where the client talks to server only through REST.
I've been wanting to do something like this for a certain time, so I have a few questions if you don't mind.
How do you handle authentication? Tokens? Cookies? Is there a special "API key" for your web app?
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#19I spent last 3 months building AngularJS + Flask where the client talks to server only through REST. There were 3 options: 1. Bare Flask 2. Flask RESTful 3. Flask Restless I've spent quite some time investigating 2nd and 3rd options. Problems with 2nd: a) Didn't bring much to the table comparing to pure Flask. Extra abstraction and complexity that without much improvements b) Swallowing Flask exceptions c) Risk that…
Built in pagination isn't something that's planned atm, tho typically I'd always return objects as the top level representation, and embed the pagination links inside that.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
The most obvious feature difference is the browsable API. Flask API also shares the same architecture as the core of Django REST framework, which I think just has a really nice separation of concerns. Also the interface of `request.data` means is easy to transparently support both JSON and form requests, and the nice content negotiation on responses means it's easy to build services that power both an HTML front-end…
We've been considering "porting" our app from Flask-RESTful to Django REST Framework because it is so well architected, tested, and has a large community around it. So I'm overjoyed to hear that you're bringing this awesomeness to the Flask world Tom!
Most welcome! For anyone on this thread who's interested in contributing I'd suggest opening a ticket citing your interest, so that we've then go a place we can start the discussion from.