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Flask Rest API -Part:6- Testing REST APIs

Paurakh Sharma Humagain on February 03, 2020

Part 6: Testing REST APIs Howdy! In the previous Part of the series, we learned how to perform password reset in our REST API. In this ...

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Bimo Prasetyo Afif • Feb 7 '20 • Edited

Hello, i like your article. Wish you make about implementation flask to microservices with docker or kubernetes :)

btw keep doing, good work

Paurakh Sharma Humagain • Feb 11 '20

Thank you for the suggestion.
Something similar is in the making 😉

Bimo Prasetyo Afif • Feb 11 '20

that's great, can't wait:)

Birk Marcus • May 12 '20

Thank you for this article. I've enjoyed typing along.
This is a perfect skeleton for an API I'm working on.

Would you say that the authentication and security of this setup is production ready?

Thanks again

Paurakh Sharma Humagain • Jun 1 '20

This article was intended for teaching people how to build Rest API with Flask.

I wouldn't say this is production ready because there are some unhandled exceptions,
that I skipped for the simplicity of the series.

Colin Skow • May 10 '20 • Edited

You've got errors in your final versions of your test files:

test_signup.py line 'class SignupTest(unittest.TestCase):' should be 'class SignupTest(BaseCase):'
test_create_movie.py lines """ from tests.BaseCase import BasicTest class TestUserLogin(BasicTest): def test_successful_login(self): """ should be """ from tests.BaseCase import BaseCase class TestUserLogin(BaseCase): def test_create_movie(self): """ ^^^ not very readable but I assume you will figure it out

Paurakh Sharma Humagain • May 10 '20

Thank you so much for pointing that out. 😊
I have updated the article to fix it.

Colin Skow • May 10 '20

Welcome!

Ben Carter • Feb 20 '20

Do you have any tips on testing with mock JSON files, instead of using the database?

TerryBearDash • May 13 '20

Thank you for this. Really helpful! How would you go about deploying this?

Paurakh Sharma Humagain • Jun 1 '20

I am glad that this helped you.

Heroku should be an easy way to deploy this.

henriquepboueri • Apr 11 '21

Amazing series. Congratulations.
Is there something about front-end as well?

Ibrahim AMADOU • Dec 31 '20

Thank you for this awesome tutorial series. Thanks again.

Arthur Denner • Jul 23 '20

Thank you for this series!

rahul • Jul 27 '20

Hi,
How can I add set ENV_FILE_LOCATION = ./.env in docker for this project ?

Ben Carter • Feb 18 '20

Hey, thanks for making these tutorials they are great for starting with Flask APIs :)

call me R • Apr 29 '21

I read your series of articles 0-6, They help me a lot. Thank You!