Fixing Issues
Understand how to fix common issues when calling APIs in Flask. Learn to handle missing items with 404 errors and avoid server crashes caused by incomplete POST data. This lesson helps you improve your server-side API robustness and error management.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Issues when calling APIs
What happens if we try to get an item that is not available, such as item 5 (that is http GET 0.0.0.0:3000/my-api/5)? In development mode, a long detailed message is returned. In production mode, setting export FLASK_ENV=production results in a terse and t0-the-point response. The application crashes and Werkzeug, the application manager, reports it.
Fixing the issues in GET
It would be better if, it returned instead of crashing, a “404 ...