flask-restful/flask-restful

Features

• RESTful API Development - Provides a framework for building structured web services based on the REST architectural style using standard HTTP methods.
• API Parameter Validation - Enforces data integrity by parsing and casting incoming API parameters into specific data types.
• API Resource Mapping - Organizes API endpoints into logical resource classes that map specific URLs to their handling logic.
• Class-Based Resource Mapping - Organizes endpoint logic by mapping HTTP verbs directly to corresponding methods within resource classes.
• Request Parsing - Provides declarative utilities for decoding and validating incoming HTTP request parameters into structured types.
• Resource-Based Routing - Implements a routing system that maps HTTP methods to specific class methods within resource objects.
• Response Formatting - Transforms internal Python data structures into standardized media types like JSON for consistent API responses.
• RESTful API Frameworks - Provides a comprehensive toolkit for building RESTful web services using Flask as the underlying framework.
• RESTful Services - Ships a toolkit for building stateless web services with integrated request parsing and response formatting.
• Content Negotiation - Implements automatic content negotiation to serve the appropriate media type based on client request headers.
• Resource Registries - Uses a central registry to track resource classes and automate the creation of corresponding API routes.
• Decorator-Based Dispatchers - Uses decorators to route incoming HTTP requests to the appropriate handler functions.
• API Frameworks - An extension for building REST APIs with Flask.
• Web Frameworks - Simple framework for creating REST APIs.

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