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Flask + postgres

• collyw 13y ago
  Out of interest, I hear a lot of people saying Flask is good for REST API's. You don't use any additional framework? Does this mean you manually have to code POST requests to accept data / save them to the database? Some kind of REST framework would seem like a far easier option. (I use Django / Tasypie - you configure the resource, and it automatically knows how to save a valid POST to the database).
  • bsaul 13y ago
    Yeap, i don't know if flask has some lib to magically expose ORM objects via CRUD services, but i generally don't like those ( orm is already the limit to my tolerance for auto generated code). But it's not a big deal. With some base class and python getattr / setattr, you can factor out much of the code. In general, the whole point of using microframework like flask is to keep a tight control of your code base. You may think that some low level libs would be too hard to code, and you would be right, but most of time you can avoid the difficulties by coding only for your specific case.