Madame is a dynamic RESTful API for MongoDB based on Flask.
- Author
Asdine El Hrychy
- Version
0.1
Release v0.1.2.a (documentation)
- REST-compliant
- HATEOAS
- Dynamic collections
- JSON Schemas separated from code
- JSON Validation
- Cache
- Versioning
- Read-only by default
Madame supports built-in CRUD operations.
Action Method Create POST Read GET Update PATCH Update* POST Delete DELETE
*Update method can use POST or PATCH, whether the user updates the entire document or not.
Madame keeps database schemas separated from code, and uses JSON to describe them. To validate the data, it uses the strong schema validation library : Validictory. :
{
"contacts": {
"title" : "Contacts",
"description" : "My contact list",
"schema" : {
"type" : "object",
"properties" : {
"firstname" : {
"type" : "string",
"minLength" : 1,
"maxLength" : 10
},
"lastname" : {
"type" : "string",
"minLength" : 1,
"maxLength" : 15,
"required" : true
},
"phone-number" : {
"type" : "string",
"format": "phone"
}
}
}
}
}
You can add and delete new schemas without turning the servers off and use them immediatly. :
>>> import requests, json
>>> data = {
"pets" :
{
"title": "Pets",
"description" : "My pets",
"schema" :
{
"type" : "object",
"properties" : {
"name" : {
"type" : "string",
"minLength" : 1,
"maxLength" : 15,
"required" : True
}
}
}
}
}
>>> headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}
>>> r = requests.post('http://localhost:5000/', data=json.dumps(data), headers=headers)
>>> print r.status_code
201
You can then add new pets in your collection. :
$ curl -i -d '{ "name" : "Betise" }' -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:5000/pets/
HTTP/1.0 201 CREATED
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 263
ETag: "17c62e0fd3f85bf0f7db76fc2c90027f3309a83c"
Server: Werkzeug/0.8.3 Python/2.7.3
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:36:00 GMT
{
"title": "Document created",
"links":
[
{
"methods": ["GET", "POST", "DELETE"],
"href": "http://localhost:5000/pets/",
"description": "You are here.",
"rel": "self",
"title": "Pets"
},
{
"href": "http://localhost:5000/pets/50e6f6e00ef3c414fcf66b45",
"rel": "item"
}
],
}
Madame uses MongoDB options for filtering and sorting. :
$ curl http://localhost:5000/pets/?limit=1&skip=20
$ pip install madame
from madame import Madame
app = Madame()
app.run()
from madame import Madame
app = Madame('/v1')
app.run()
Use Madame as an Ajax extension of your website. As Madame is built on Flask, you can still use it as a normal website. :
from madame import Madame
from flask import render_template
app = Madame('/ajax')
@app.route('/')
def index():
return render_template('index.html')
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run()
- Highly customizable
- Authentication
- Pagination
GET /<collection>/<chosenIdentifier>
and so on.
Any comment or advice would be highly appreciated!
Complete documentation is available at https://madame.readthedocs.org
Madame is MIT licensed. See the LICENSE for details.
Madame is developped by Asdine El Hrychy. See the AUTHORS for details.