Example Falcon Service

This project is an example of a full fledged Falcon API service. The intended purpose is to show one of the many ways people can build services with the following features:

• Input Validation
• Simple ORM usage
• Testing
• CLI entrypoint
• Middleware
• Custom Gunicorn Workers

Installation

From the cloned source, execute:

pip install -e .

Running

Once installed you can run the service using the falcon-example command.

Note

The service connects to a MySQL database. You'll need to edit the service config in etc/example/config.yml to match your configuration.

Running Tests

Install test requirements

pip install -r dev-requirements.txt

Execute the tests by running the tox command: