Py4Web Rest API Test

[Kevin Keller]

Hello, 

this is in my controller: 

from pydal.restapi import RestAPI, Policy

policy = Policy()

policy.set('superhero', 'GET', authorize=True, allowed_patterns=['*'])

policy.set('*', 'GET', authorize=True, allowed_patterns=['*'])

policy.set('*', 'PUT', authorize=False)

policy.set('*', 'POST', authorize=False)

policy.set('*', 'DELETE', authorize=False)

@action('rest', method='GET')

def api():

    return RestAPI(db, policy)(request.method, request.args(0), request.args(1),

                             request.get_vars, request.post_vars)

and this in my models.py. 

db.define_table(

    'person',

    Field('name'),

    Field('job'))

db.define_table(

    'superhero',

    Field('name'),

    Field('real_identity', 'reference person'))

db.define_table(

    'superpower',

    Field('description'))

db.define_table(

    'tag',

    Field('superhero', 'reference superhero'),

    Field('superpower', 'reference superpower'),

    Field('strength', 'integer'))

But I get 404 no matter how I try to access... 

/test/rest/api.json/superhero?name.eq=Superman

Also had to change the import from the docs from dbapi to restapi.. 

[Massimo Di Pierro]

You have a perfect example of web2py vs py4web.

Almost everything in your code works in both web2py and py4web but you action is a mix of both and works in neither.

@action('rest', method='GET') # this is py4web syntax only defined the

def api():

    return RestAPI(db, policy)(request.method, request.args(0), request.args(1), request.get_vars, request.post_vars) # this is web2py syntax

In py4web there is no request.args, request.get_vars and request.post_vars and you have to use the bottle syntax:

@action('rest/<tablename>')

@action('rest/<tablename>/<id>')

def api(tablename, id=None):

    return RestAPI(db, policy)(request.method, tablename, id, request.query, request.json)

This will expose /{appname}/rest/{tablename} and /{appname}/rest/{tablename}/{id}