jcfrank · August 29, 2015 14:13 · Jan 11, 2015 · Jan 9, 2015
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+Simple Flask app
+================
+
 This snippet is from an API server of another open source project.  
 It was written to work with webpy, but I change it to use Flask.
 

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+This snippet is from an API server of another open source project.  
+It was written to work with webpy, but I change it to use Flask.
+
+requirements:
+```
+flask
+flask-restful
+```
+
+api.py
+```python
+import fp
+import inside_server_operation
+from flask import Flask, abort
+from flask.ext.restful import Api, Resource, reqparse
+
+
+app = Flask(__name__)
+api = Api(app)
+
+class Query(Resource):
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.parser = reqparse.RequestParser()
+        self.parser.add_argument('some_query', type=str)
+
+    def get(self):
+        args = self.parser.parse_args()
+        some_query = args["some_query"]
+        return {
+            "ok": True,
+            "some_query": some_query
+        }
+
+    def post(self):
+        return self.get()
+
+class Ingest(Resource):
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.parser = reqparse.RequestParser()
+        self.parser.add_argument('track_id', type=str, default="default")
+        # define query string parameters ...
+        self.parser.add_argument('length', default=None)
+        self.parser.add_argument('codever', default=None)
+
+    def post(self):
+        args = self.parser.parse_args()
+        track_id = args["track_id"]
+        artist = args["artist"]
+        # parse query string parameters ...
+        release = args["release"]
+        track = args["track"]
+        if not length or not codever:
+            abort(400)
+
+        """
+        some handler code.
+        """
+
+        return {
+            "track_id": track_id,
+            "status": "ok"
+        }
+
+# Routing
+api.add_resource(Query, '/query')
+api.add_resource(Ingest, '/ingest')
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=8080)
+```
+