Implement GET Endpoint for Getting Details of a Specific Product
Explore how to implement a RESTful GET endpoint in Python using Flask to retrieve specific product information based on a product ID. Understand how to use route decorators for path parameters and return JSON responses effectively.
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In a REST API, GET can be used to either retrieve the whole collection of resources or a specific item from the collection. In this lesson, we’ll look at how to implement an API that will return a product based on the product ID passed as a path parameter.
Flask provides an easy way to map the path parameter of the URI to the parameter of the method that handles the request for that URI. Without further ado, let’s implement the API endpoint that returns a specific product.
Steps
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Open
server/api/products_api.py. -
Add a new method that accepts a parameter named
product_id. Name the methodget_product. ...
def get_product(product_id):