shark2byte/rest4python repository overview

⁠REST4PYTHON

ON DOCKER HUB⁠

⁠How To:

• You need to have Docker installed!
• Create a Dockerfile like this (YOU CAN FIND THE FILE IN THIS REPOS UNDER /restpy/Dockerfile , info CMD ./run.sh Start your webserver, don't copy another run.sh !):

FROM shark2byte/rest4python:latest

COPY . .

CMD ./run.sh

• Create Python and HTML files, go down in this Readme.md file to get help for pythonfile, you can find an example in this repo under /restpy/pytest.py
• Create a setup.json, its an array [] that includes objects like this {"lang": "py", "file": "myfile.py", "path": "/my/api/path"} at lang you can input html or py
• Build the Dockerfile: docker build -t my/server .
• Run it your server expose port 8080 docker run -p 80:8080 -d my/server

⁠Python

You Python file will be executed by the server if a user hit the page what you defined in setup.json.

• print one json formatted file print('{"myapi": "some content for my server"}') , you can also concat it like this:

print("{")
print('"myapi":"')
print("some content for my server")
print('"')
print("}")

• Query (Query is the part behind the ? in the url, you can access it with python) Add at the top of your python file this code:

import sys
import json
query=json.loads(sys.argv[1])

to access the query via query , example: user call your python file with the url ending ?hello=world , then you can access the world part via query["hello"]

⁠Example

You find a Example in this Repos in the folder restpy

⁠WHAT IF IT NOT WORK?

If the dockerfile work not, use git clone https://github.com/Sharkbyteprojects/REST-Python.git to clone the repos, change the files in the folder restpy and start with NODE JS npm start in the main folder of the repos

⁠What the Dev's do in the Future:

• We working on a Post API