Flask-Rebar
August 8, 2023 ยท View on GitHub
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Flask-Rebar combines flask <http://flask.pocoo.org/>, marshmallow <https://marshmallow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>, and swagger <https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/master/versions/2.0.md>_ for robust REST services.
Features
- Request and Response Validation - Flask-Rebar relies on schemas from the popular Marshmallow package to validate incoming requests and marshal outgoing responses.
- Automatic Swagger Generation - The same schemas used for validation and marshaling are used to automatically generate OpenAPI specifications (a.k.a. Swagger). This also means automatic documentation via
Swagger UI <https://swagger.io/swagger-ui/>_. - Error Handling - Uncaught exceptions from Flask-Rebar are converted to appropriate HTTP errors.
Example
.. code-block:: python
from flask import Flask from flask_rebar import errors, Rebar from marshmallow import fields, Schema
from my_app import database
rebar = Rebar()
All handler URL rules will be prefixed by '/v1'
registry = rebar.create_handler_registry(prefix='/v1')
class TodoSchema(Schema): id = fields.Integer() complete = fields.Boolean() description = fields.String()
This schema will validate the incoming request's query string
class GetTodosQueryStringSchema(Schema): complete = fields.Boolean()
This schema will marshal the outgoing response
class GetTodosResponseSchema(Schema): data = fields.Nested(TodoSchema, many=True)
@registry.handles(
rule='/todos',
method='GET',
query_string_schema=GetTodosQueryStringSchema(),
response_body_schema=GetTodosResponseSchema(), # for versions <= 1.7.0, use marshal_schema
)
def get_todos():
"""
This docstring will be rendered as the operation's description in
the auto-generated OpenAPI specification.
"""
# The query string has already been validated by query_string_schema
complete = rebar.validated_args.get('complete')
...
# Errors are converted to appropriate HTTP errors
raise errors.Forbidden()
...
# The response will be marshaled by `marshal_schema`
return {'data': []}
def create_app(name): app = Flask(name) rebar.init_app(app) return app
if name == 'main': create_app(name).run()
For a more complete example, check out the example app at examples/todo.py <examples/todo/todo.py>. Some example requests to this example app can be found at examples/todo_output.md <examples/todo/todo_output.md>.
Installation
.. code-block::
pip install flask-rebar
Replacing static swagger-ui files
If you'd like to replace swagger-ui's static files (flask_rebar/swagger_ui/static) with those of the latest release,
run the following from the root of the project.
.. code-block::
curl -L https://api.github.com/repos/swagger-api/swagger-ui/tarball | tar -xv --directory=flask_rebar/swagger_ui/static --strip-components=2 "*/dist/"
Documentation
More extensive documentation can be found here <https://flask-rebar.readthedocs.io>_.
Extensions
Flask-Rebar is extensible! Here are some open source extensions:
Flask-Rebar-Auth0 <https://github.com/Sytten/flask-rebar-auth0>_ -Auth0 <https://auth0.com/>_ authenticator for Flask-Rebar
Contributing
There is still work to be done, and contributions are encouraged! Check out the contribution guide <CONTRIBUTING.rst>_ for more information.