Implement the POST Endpoint for Creating a New Product
Discover how to implement a POST endpoint in a Python REST API with Flask to create new product entries. Learn to handle JSON request data, generate resource URIs dynamically, and respond with appropriate HTTP status and headers. This lesson guides you through step-by-step coding and testing for practical API development.
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In a REST API, insert (aka create) is used to add a new resource to the existing collection. In this lesson, we’ll see how to implement an API endpoint using POST, which adds/creates a new product to the existing collection of products.
The request object of Flask can be used to retrieve the body of a POST request. The route decorator can be used to map a method to the POST request. Let us see how to implement an API to add a new product by using the request object and the route decorator.
Steps
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Open
server/api/products_api.py. -
Add a new method. Name the method
add_product. ...
def add_product():
- Add the following code.
data = request.get_json()
data['id'] = str(len(products) + 1)
products.append(data)
location = url_for('.get_product', product_id =