Welcome to Flask-Rebar¶

Welcome to Flask-Rebar’s documentation!

Flask-Rebar combines flask, marshmallow, and swagger for robust REST services.

Features¶

Request and Response Validation - Flask-Rebar relies on schemas from the popular Marshmallow package to validate incoming requests and marshal outgoing responses.
Automatic Swagger Generation - The same schemas used for validation and marshaling are used to automatically generate OpenAPI specifications (a.k.a. Swagger). This also means automatic documentation via Swagger UI.
Error Handling - Uncaught exceptions from Flask-Rebar are converted to appropriate HTTP errors.

Example¶

Here’s what a basic Flask-Rebar application looks like:

from flask import Flask
from flask_rebar import errors, Rebar
from marshmallow import fields, Schema

from my_app import database


rebar = Rebar()

# All handler URL rules will be prefixed by '/v1'
registry = rebar.create_handler_registry(prefix='/v1')

class TodoSchema(Schema):
    id = fields.Integer()
    complete = fields.Boolean()
    description = fields.String()

# This schema will validate the incoming request's query string
class GetTodosQueryStringSchema(Schema):
    complete = fields.Boolean()

# This schema will marshal the outgoing response
class GetTodosResponseSchema(Schema):
    data = fields.Nested(TodoSchema, many=True)


@registry.handles(
    rule='/todos',
    method='GET',
    query_string_schema=GetTodosQueryStringSchema(),
    response_body_schema=GetTodosResponseSchema(), # For version <= 1.7.0 use marshal_schema
)
def get_todos():
    """
    This docstring will be rendered as the operation's description in
    the auto-generated OpenAPI specification.
    """
    # The query string has already been validated by `query_string_schema`
    complete = rebar.validated_args.get('complete')

    ...

    # Errors are converted to appropriate HTTP errors
    raise errors.Forbidden()

    ...

    # The response will be marshaled by `marshal_schema`
    return {'data': []}


def create_app(name):
    app = Flask(name)
    rebar.init_app(app)
    return app


if __name__ == '__main__':
    create_app(__name__).run()

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