ONoneweekwonder·Nov 1, 2017
If your interested in flask and api's have a look at https://github.com/zalando/connexion, but personally I'm more a bottle kind of guy.
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connexion
Connexion is a modern Python web framework that makes spec-first and api-first development easy.
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5 sourcesSwagger Editor[1] can spit out the skeleton of a Flask based server from an OpenAPI 2.0 specification. The generated code makes use of the Connexion famework[2].
Paste your specification into the editor, fix it if it's not valid, open the "Generate Server" dropdown in the top menu, and select "python-flask".
[1] http://editor.swagger.io/
[2] https://github.com/zalando/connexion/
In Swagger is now the OpenAPI SpecificationConnexion: Swagger/OpenAPI First Framework for Python on Top of Flask
1 points · Open discussionWhile Swagger might not be perfect (some pain points are addressed with OpenAPI v3) it works IMHO pretty well for us (Zalando) and myself doing API first:
* use a decent editor to write the YAML e.g. https://github.com/zalando/intellij-swagger
* do not write any boilerplate code and do not generate code (if that's possible in your env), e.g. by using https://github.com/zalando/connexion (Python API-first)
* follow best practices and guidelines to have a consistent API experience, e.g. https://zalando.github.io/restful-api-guidelines/
Most importantly Swagger/OpenAPI gives us a "simple" (everything is relative!) language to define APIs and discuss/review them independent of languages as teams use different ones across Zalando Tech.
In Problems with SwaggerI often write swagger files that are fed to a library[0] that maps them to Flask endpoints and does input validation.
Writing the schema is always a painful experience. I find the result overly verbose and not human friendly. Which makes me think that these things shouldn't be hand crafted.
> I believe this can be very interesting since it allows you to centralize documentation, generate protocol-agnostic clients to share with other teams in your organisation, etc.
On the paper yes, but I have yet to come across formal API specification used this way. The only usage I see in the wild is the generation of web API browsers, a la swagger UI.
[0] https://github.com/zalando/connexion
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