Sample implementation of a CherryPy REST API server
Input/output format is JSON
Run ./server.py
In another shell session, use curl or wget to issue URI requests.
Since the example uses HTTP Basic authentication, it is necessary to
specify the user as user and password as password. This can be seen
in the code under the import statements.
For example, to request all nodes:
curl --verbose --user user:password localhost:8080/nodes
or trigger the 404 (not found) error handler:
curl --verbose --user user:password localhost:8080/nodes/notfound
or simulate a node creation POST request:
curl --verbose --user user:password \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data "{\"name\": \"blah\"}" localhost:8080/nodes
or simulate node update (PUT) request:
curl --verbose --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--request PUT --data "{}" localhost:8080/nodes/blah
Simple unit test for Marshmallow-based schema is available in test_schema.py.
Invoke it as follows:
pytest -sv test_schema.py