Class-based APIs

[joelcox]

This is mostly syntactic sugar, but when you're adding a lot of pre-/post processors the api.create_api functions becomes really big and unwieldy. Would it be an idea to make Restless more class-oriented?

Post/pre processors would work the same way and will be executed if they are defined as methods. The only thing I'm not sure about is having multiple post/pre processors, maybe through inheritance?

class PostsResource(flask.ext.restless.Resource):

    model = models.Post
    collection_name = 'posts'
    methods = ['GET', 'POST', 'DELETE']

    ...

    def pre_post_single(self, data=None, **kwags):
        pass

api.add_resource(PostResource, '/posts')

If people are interested in this improvement I'd like to take a stab at it.

[jfinkels]

I'm not sure about this. There are other Flask extensions that allow the user to create APIs using class-based "Resources", so I'd prefer to leave that style to those other extensions (even if it is more flexible or cleaner in some ways).

[joelcox]

You're right. I was drawn to Restless because of the great pre/post-processor support, but missed the class-based approach. I think I'll cook something up myself for this project :).

On Sep 23, 2013, at 6:18 AM, jfinkels [email protected] wrote:

I'm not sure about this. There are other Flask extensions that allow the user to create APIs using class-based "Resources", so I'd prefer to leave that style to those other extensions (even if it is more flexible or cleaner in some ways).

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