bookService

Description: Its a Book Service to manage the book records

Author: Tarun Pal Singh

Design: Its a Microservice based on Flask and SQLite

Setting up env

• Installing Vitual ENV
  • pip install virtualenv
• Create virtualenv for windows
  • py -3 -m venv venv
• Activate virualenv for windows
  • venv\Scripts\activate
• Install Flask on the enviroment
  • pip install flask
• Upgrading PIP
  • python -m pip install --upgrade pip

Running Service

• flask run

API

• GET http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/books
  -Get all the books

  • Sample Response: [ {"author": "Author1","created": "2022-04-03 15:10:41","id": 1, "title": "Title1"}, {"author": "Author2","created": "2022-04-03 15:11:41","id": 2, "title": "Title2"}]

• GET http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/books/
  -Get a book with specific Id

  • Sample Response: [ {"author": "Author2","created": "2022-04-03 15:11:41","id": 2, "title": "Title2"}]

• POST

  • http://localhost:5000/api/books
    • add a new book
    • { "author": "author5", "id": 5, "title": "title5" }

• PUT

  • http://localhost:5000/api/books/4
    • update a new book
    • { "author": "author55", "id": 5, "title": "title55" }

Reference

• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-an-sqlite-database-in-a-flask-application
• https://dzone.com/articles/python-flask-code-generator
• https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.0.x/quickstart/