UA-Generic-Rest-Api

Provides basic REST API Implementation for GET, PUT, and POST, and DELETE.

Motivation

Was designed to remove similarities among REST API implementations by creating a generic REST API that classes can be extended and override for specific needs.

Features

• GET - Implementation of GET which can single GET, batch GET, single GET with query, and GET every page on a paginated endpoint.
  • Batch gets with queries are unavailable as there is no way to give each get a unique query. Because of this the feature was not included.
• PUT - Basic implementation of PUT which puts the payload to the given endpoint.
• POST - Basic implementation of POST which posts the payload to the given endpoint.
• DELETE - Basic implementation of DELETE which deletes the given endpoint.

Code Example

from ua_generic_rest_api import GenericRestApi

class SpecificRestApi(GenericRestApi):
    # Replace '...' with any other initialization arguments.
    def __init__(self, ...):
        # host, header_info, page_query, and page_tag are site specific.
        # Set them to your own values.
        super().__init__(host, header_info, page_query, page_tag=page_tag)

    # Can override GET, PUT, POST, or DELETE here.

• host - The base url for the endpoint that is to be gotten.
• header_info - Any information to be added to a request header such as Authorization or Content-Type.
  • Should be in the form of a dictionary, such as {"Authorization": None, "Content-Type": "text/xml"}.
• page_query - The tag to use when querying for specific pages.
  • For example, for sites queried with the tag "?page=", page_query should be "page".
• page_tag - The tag name of paginated endpoints to search for when getting data.
  • For sites paginated with the tag "page", page_tag should be "page".

Installation

pip install ua-generic-rest-api
pip install -r requirements.txt

Tests

• Tests are only necessary when wanting to make changes to the module.

pip install --update node
cd ./ua_generic_rest_api
cd ./tests
nosetests test_generic_rest_api.py

Credits

sterns1 EtienneThompson

License

MIT