wiki:S3/S3REST/s3_rest_controller

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s3_rest_controller

Introduction

The so-called REST Controller (function s3_rest_controller) is a helper function to easily apply the RESTful API of the S3Resource class to your controller.

s3_rest_controller does:

  • parse and execute the incoming HTTP request on the specified resource
  • populate and hand-over additional view components
  • choose and set the response view template (response.view)

Syntax

output = s3_rest_controller(prefix, resourcename, **attr)
  • prefix is the application prefix of the resource
  • resourcename is the name of the resource (without prefix)
  • attr are any additional view components
  • output contains the result of the request and can be returned from the controller as-is
    • in interactive view formats, this is a dict of variables for the view

Additional View Components

Additional named arguments in the s3_rest_controller call control the output dict after the request has been executed:

  • any callable argument will be invoked with the S3Request as first and only argument, and its return value will be added to the output dict instead
  • any non-callable argument which is not None will be added to the output dict as-is
  • any argument that gives None will remove this key from the output dict

A typical use-case is rheader:

def my_rheader(r):
  if r.interactive and r.component:
    # Code producing the rheader...
    return rheader
  else:
    return None

output = s3_rest_controller(prefix, name, rheader=my_rheader)

In this case, the rheader variable is only added to the output when my_rheader(r) returns something else than None.


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