Querying my Eve API from my Flask code

Question

In Flask, I have an Eve API running under endpoints like /api/v1/Widgets

I can query that from eg Javascript, but I don't know how to properly query that API from elsewhere within my Flask app.

Just now for example, if I need to search Widgets in one of my routes, then I'm loading the requests module and querying the API using a separate http request, and dealing with the JSON returned.

@app.route('/hello')
def show_hello():
    resp   = requests.get('http://example.com/api/v1/Widgets')
    return jsonify({'results': resp.json()})

That's surely very inefficient and it seems like there must be something like

my_endpoint = app.Eve.endpoint('Widgets')          # not real
return jsonify({'results': my_endpoint.search()})  # not real

But I don't know what that is. Could someone help me understand if/how I can make queries directly into my Eve endpoints from with my normal Flask app routes?

Answer 1

You can use app.test_client.get() which is however rate limited, authenticated and raises pre-request events.

With v0.7 (currently on the develop branch ) you can use get_internal . This method is not rate limited, authentication is not checked and pre-request events are not raised. Usage example:

from eve.methods.get import get_internal

payload = get_internal(endpoint)