Python API Development Competency (Intermediate Level)

Topics covered

• build an API to return images in response to a GET request
• compare and contrast the Python Requests and HTTPX libraries
• configure a Flask-RESTful request parser to parse arguments from different locations
• configure an httpx.Cookies instance to send a collection of properties to a remote server
• configure required parameters using the Flask-RESTful request parser
• create a custom class which accepts data in a PUT request and uses it to update a resource
• create a REST API with a route that responds to GET requests
• develop an application so that a Django model instance is created for data sent through POST requests
• identify when a redirect has taken place upon submitting an HTTP request
• issue GET requests to your Django app and analyze the responses that are generated
• limit the amount of time your app spends waiting to get served a response to an HTTP request using timeouts
• obtain information about a remote service by examining the data in the headers returned in an HTTP response
• process large HTTP responses in chunks using HTTPX streams
• recognize the messages conveyed in the different status codes sent in an HTTP response
• recognize the types of exceptions that can be encountered when sending and processing requests with HTTPX
• specify custom error messages for missing arguments using the Flask-RESTful library
• use a request parser to parse input arguments sent in a request body
• use HEAD and OPTIONS requests and test the validation of POST requests
• use the copy method to inherit from a predefined request parser via Flask-RESTful
• use the Flask-RESTful library to bundle parsing errors
• use the HTTPX AsynClient to download a set of files asynchronously