• First draft of a pyramid extension to build RESTful web application.

• Features included:

  • resource definition which configure routes/views, i.e:

    • a resource 'application':

      • route [GET/POST] /applications
      • route [GET/DELETE/PUT] /applications/{application_id}
      • route GET /applications/{application_id}/new
      • route GET /applications/{application_id}/edit

    • a resource 'application.user':

      • route [GET/POST] /applications/{application_id}/users
      • route [GET/DELETE/PUT] /applications/{application_id}/users/{user_id}
      • route GET /applications/{application_id}/users/new
      • route GET /applications/{application_id}/users/edit

    • a singular resource 'application.user.score':

      • route [GET/PUT] /applications/{application_id}/users/{user_id}/score
      • route GET /applications/{application_id}/users/{user_id}/score/edit

  • resources are added to config introspector and related to their routes,views, sub-resource and parent resource;
  • end user defines REST methods (index, create, show, update, delete, new, edit);
  • by default:
    • HTTP 405 is returned for any method not provided;
    • permissions 'index, create, show, update, delete, new, edit' are associated to respective method;

• 3 ways to configure resource:

  1. Imperative using config.add_resource, it will associate class in views module to resource :

     config.add_resource('application')       # .views.applications:ApplicationsView
     config.add_resource('application.user')  # .views.application_users:ApplicationUsersView

  2. Declarative using Resource class (cornice style):

     app_users = Resource('application.user')
     
     @app_users.index()
     def index(context, request, application_id):
         pass
     
     @app_users.show()
     def show(context, request, application_id, id):
         pass

  3. Declarative using resource_config decorator:

     @resource_config('application.user')
     class AppUsers(object):
     
         def __init__(self, context, request):
             pass
     
         def index(self, application_id):
             return {}
     
         @method_config(renderer='example.mako')
         def edit(self, application_id, id):
             return {}

1. HTTP PATCH method: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5789
2. Resource Scaffolding command;
3. Links;
4. Validation;
5. Pagination;
6. Automatic resource definition of SQLAlchemy entities;
7. Have a view parameter in add_resource to override view definition;

https://github.com/hadrien/pyramid_rest