Restify

A ReST interface for appengine datastore.

Restify accepts and returns data in JSON format.Restify is CSOR compatible. Restify was built as a tool to aid front-end development in the absence of a proper backend. Restify helps us in setting up a backend rest server in minimal time. All you have to do is define your database model in ReSTify/model.py file and write the small snippet of code below.

Get Started

import webapp2

import ReSTify

application = webapp2.WSGIApplication(
    [
        ('/api/.*', ReSTify.ReST),
        ],
    debug=True)

Files

ReSTify/model.py:

Define your datastore models over here.

ReSTify/settings.py:

ORIGIN_SITE_NAME

Define the URL for the site where the Requests originate (Server URL where the front-end is hosted)

MODEL_NAME_ALIAS

Define alias names for DataStore models for neater looking URL's and if you dont want to make your model names public

Request syntax

GET:

Retrieve all the entities in the particular datastore /api/<model_name>/

Gets information about an entity /api/<model_name>/<id>/

POST:

Create an entity in the particular datastore /api/<model_name>/

DELETE:

Delete a particular entity /api/<model_name>/<id>/

PUT:

Edit a particular entity /api/<model_name>/<id>/

Response status codes

• 200 -> Ok -> When the requested data is retrieved successfully
• 201 -> Created -> When a new object is created
• 404 -> Not Found -> When the requested data was not found in the server.
• 400 -> Bad request -> When the request id or model name is incorrect
• 204 -> No Content -> When data is deleted successfully from the server and there is no data to retrieve