如果这个RESTful API在Flask？ 为什么不？

Question

A truly RESTful API looks like hypertext. Every addressable unit of information carries an address, either explicitly (eg, link

https://restfulapi.net

The following code contains the full url. So, it is called RESTful API.

@app.route('/todo/api/v1.0/tasks', methods=['GET'])
def get_tasks():
    return jsonify({'tasks': tasks})

The following code doesn't contain the full url. So, it is NOT called RESTful API?

@app.route("/writeOutput", methods=['POST'])

def writeOutput():
    return "Hello, World!"

My question is: What is it called when we use POST but not the full url?

Answer 1

Neither of the urls you've posted are full urls . They're both paths (uri) in the same application, hence they qualify for being RESTful according to the specs .

However, if you have or are planning to have other versions than v1.0 , then it is not qualified as a RESTful API as they should be nouns only, ie you should write it like /todo/api/{id}/tasks this instead.

Answer 2

I dont think the url has to do anything with an api being RESTful you read that in detail here

if you call the /todo/api/v1.0/tasks with post method it will return you method not allowed as the link is only valid for get method. if you send a request to /writeOutput with post method, def writeOutput(): will be called.