A simple flask connexion REST API
Running the app locally
source env/bin/activate
python3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 server.pyAfter that you can go to:
localhost:5000
localhost:5000/api/people
To access the beautiful swagger ui, navigate here:
http://localhost:5000/api/ui/
If some error comes then install
pip3 install connexion[swagger-ui]
and again navigate to the above URL.
NOTE: The code is well documented, so can be used as a reference
Why am I using connexion, when a REST API can be easily made with Flask?
The Connexion module allows a Python program to use the Swagger specification. This provides a lot of functionality: validation of input and output data to and from your API, an easy way to configure the API URL endpoints and the parameters expected, and a really nice UI interface to work with the created API and explore it.
All of this can happen when you create a configuration file your application can access. The Swagger site even provides an online configuration editor tool to help create and/or syntax check the configuration file you will create.