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Api

Flask starting app

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import flask

from flask import request, jsonify

app = flask.Flask(__name__)
app.config["DEBUG"] = True

# Create some test data for our catalog in the form of a list of dictionaries.
books = [
{'id': 0,
'title': 'A Fire Upon the Deep',
'author': 'Vernor Vinge',
'first_sentence': 'The coldsleep itself was dreamless.',
'year_published': '1992'},
{'id': 1,
'title': 'The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas',
'author': 'Ursula K. Le Guin',
'first_sentence': 'With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the
Festival of Summer came to the city Omelas, bright-towered by the sea.',
'published': '1973'},
{'id': 2,
'title': 'Dhalgren',
'author': 'Samuel R. Delany',
'first_sentence': 'to wound the autumnal city.',
'published': '1975'}
]

@app.route('/', methods=['GET'])
def home():
return '''<h1>Distant Reading Archive</h1>
<p>A prototype API for distant reading of science fiction novels.</p>'''

# A route to return all of the available entries in our catalog.


@app.route('/api/v1/resources/books/all', methods=['GET'])
def api_all():
return jsonify(books)

@app.route('/api/v1/resources/books', methods=['GET'])
def api_id():
# Check if an ID was provided as part of the URL.
# If ID is provided, assign it to a variable.
# If no ID is provided, display an error in the browser.
if 'id' in request.args:
id = int(request.args['id'])
else:
return "Error: No id field provided. Please specify an id."

# Create an empty list for our results


results = []

# Loop through the data and match results that fit the requested ID.
# IDs are unique, but other fields might return many results
for book in books:
if book['id'] == id:
results.append(book)

# Use the jsonify function from Flask to convert our list of


# Python dictionaries to the JSON format.
return jsonify(results)

app.run()

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