microcosm-flask

Opinionated Flask services.

Conventions

• Classify API endpoints according to an enumerated set of operations with well-defined naming conventions
• Handle errors consistently using a top-level error and nested sub-errrors
• Handle UUIDs as route path keys
• Protect endpoints with basic auth
• Use HAL JSON links to related resources to each other
• Use Swagger to publish endpoints for interoperability
• Automate generation of endpoints according to conventions:
  • A health check API endpoint exposes service health
  • RESTful endpoints provide CRUD operations on resources
  • RESTful endpoints allows one resource to be related to another
  • API discovery endpoints allow resource data to be discovered/spidered
  • Swagger endpoints allow endpoint integration to be automated

Setup

Create a virtualenv

mkvirtualenv microcosm-flask

Install dependencies

pip install -U -e .

Tests

Run the tests

pytest

Linting

Lint the code:

NAME=microcosm_flask ./entrypoint.sh lint
NAME=microcosm_flask ./entrypoint.sh typehinting

Configuration

• The object graph's debug and testing flags are propagated to the Flask application