The Python tiny api Project - Copyright 2014 Michael C. Montero (mcmontero@gmail.com)
Primary
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* To provide a minimalist framework for developing REST based API's in
Python.
* To automate as much functionality as possible for handling data
interactions from the API end point to the data store.
Secondary
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* To completely abstract away the data store layer and make switching
between data stores seamless.
* To abstract SQL to an intermediate, minimal "language".
* To automate the building of RDBMS objects.
- pip3 install pycrypto
- pip3 install pymysql
- pip3 install python3-memcached
- pip3 install mock
- pip3 install pylibmc
- Create a module called
tinyAPI_config.py
- Create it with the default values found in the documentation version of
this file here:
config/tinyAPI_config.py
- Customize it for your project.
- Add the path to where tinyAPI is stored and the path to the configuration
file to the environment variable PYTHONPATH. If tinyAPI is deployed in
/opt/tinyAPI and the configuration file is located at
/opt/my_application/config, make sure your environment contains the
following:
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/opt:/opt/my_application/config
tinyAPI was originally designed using mysql-connector-python, installed
as follows:
pip3 install --allow-external mysql-connector-python \
mysql-connector-python
However, during production use we started getting intermittent errors of
the following nature:
mysql.connector.errors.InterfaceError: 2013:
Lost connection to MySQL server during query
After further investigation, we could reproduce this issue consistently
using mysql-connector-python with a minimal test case. We could not
reproduce it, however, using PyMySQL.
In addition, we found that PyMySQL executes queries almost 50% faster.