s3_rest_controller

• S3XRC
• S3 RESTful API

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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