A simple blog REST API using Flask.

This service uses virtualenv. To run the service and tests, perform the following steps:

1. git clone https://github.com/JanxSpirit/flask_blog.git
2. cd flask_blog
3. source env/bin/activate
4. To run the service in the included server: python blog.py
5. To run the tests: python test_blog.py

  "title": "A Post Title",
  "author": "validusername",
  "content": "The content of the blog post."
}```

### Author

{ "first_name": "John", "last_name": "Doe", "dob": 2008-04-19 }

## Example usage (using httpie)

###### Create an author:

http PUT 127.0.0.1:5000/authors/jdoe first_name='John' last_name='Doe' dob='2008-04-19' HTTP/1.0 201 CREATED Content-Length: 105 Content-Type: application/json Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:27:02 GMT Location: http://127.0.0.1:5000/authors/jdoe Server: Werkzeug/0.9.1 Python/2.7.3

{ "dob": "2008-04-19", "first_name": "John", "last_name": "Doe", "username": "jdoe" }

###### Create a post:

http POST 127.0.0.1:5000/posts title='Test Post' author='jdoe' content='Blog Post Content'
HTTP/1.0 201 CREATED Content-Length: 140 Content-Type: application/json Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:29:31 GMT Location: http://127.0.0.1:5000/posts/3e7b8d4e-f077-11e2-83e3-00216b2a9376 Server: Werkzeug/0.9.1 Python/2.7.3

{ "author": "jdoe", "content": "Blog Post Content", "id": "3e7b8d4e-f077-11e2-83e3-00216b2a9376", "title": "Test Post" }

###### List all posts:

http GET 127.0.0.1:5000/posts HTTP/1.0 200 OK Content-Length: 168 Content-Type: application/json Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:30:34 GMT Server: Werkzeug/0.9.1 Python/2.7.3

[ { "author": "jdoe", "content": "Blog Post Content", "id": "3e7b8d4e-f077-11e2-83e3-00216b2a9376", "title": "Test Post" } ]

###### List all authors:

http GET 127.0.0.1:5000/authors HTTP/1.0 200 OK Content-Length: 273 Content-Type: application/json Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:31:01 GMT Server: Werkzeug/0.9.1 Python/2.7.3

[ { "dob": "2008-04-19", "first_name": "John", "last_name": "Doe", "username": "jdoe" } ]